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""Grief is a courtship with death best done with a vivid imagination."" --Jane Edberg Jane Edberg's creative muse vanished when a switch flipped from child alive to child dead. How was she supposed to process her loss? This lyrical, original, beautifully written story is about how, after the tragic death of her adored nineteen-year-old son, she rediscovers the power of art to create an unconventional pathway through grief. This is not your typical grief memoir. It is an introspective and thought-provoking story which explores the profound power of creativity to transform trauma and anguish into resilience and healing.

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Jane Edberg was born in Windsor, England, but resides in the United States on the coast of California with her husband. She is an author and an artist and holds a master of fine arts from the University of California, Davis with an emphasis in photography and performance art. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally. She taught photography and art as a tenured professor at Gavilan College for twenty-two years. She currently teaches writing at California State University Monterey Bay's Osher's Lifelong Learning Institute.Jane serves as the arts editor and a contributing editor at The Journal of Radical Wonder. Her writing is featured in the books Death, and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: Field Notes from The Death Dialogues Project; My Dead; in the flash anthology, BAM 42 Stories; and in many journals, including MacQueen's Quinterly, Cholla Needles, and Gyroscope Review. She is a Community of Writers alumna (Squaw Valley). Coleen Marlo is an accomplished actor and multi-award-winning audiobook voice artist and producer. In 2010 she was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and she won the Audie Award for Literary Fiction in 2011. During her distinguished career, she has been nominated twice for Audie Awards by the Audio Publishers Association, has won numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, and has been an AudioFile Earphones Award winner. Additionally, she has been honored with many starred audio reviews by Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. Coleen is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Furthermore, she is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology. Coleen can be found on the Web at coleenmarlo.blogspot.com and on Facebook at ColeenMarloAudiobook.

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