LORRAINE ASH, MA Author of Life Touches Life: A Mother’s Story of Stillbirth and Healing (NewSage Press), a memoir that has reached mothers throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as in Mexico, the Middle East, Australia, Europe, and China. She also is a published playwright and essayist and, for 27 years, an award-winning journalist and newspaper columnist. Lorraine, on the Web at www.lorraineash.com, teaches writing workshops at conferences nationwide.

MARY-MICHAEL LEVITT, Ed.S., LMFT, LPC Poet and director of the Riverview Counseling Center, www.riverviewcc.com, since 1984. A therapist, educator, advocate and mentor, Mary-Michael has facilitated women's retreats for more than 20 years.