Deena Metzger is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer, and medicine woman. For more than four decades, she has taught and counseled in the Healing Stories process that she developed to creatively address life-threatening illness, spiritual and emotional crises, and eco-social issues. Her many books include From Grief into Vision: A Council; Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; Tree: Essays and Pieces; A Sabbath Among the Ruins; Looking for the Faces of God; and Writing For Your Life.