About the Author

Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. is a poet, writer, and Co-Creating coach with two decades of experience teaching in university and community settings. Her poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. She gave a 2013 TEDx Talk on "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering, and Making Meaning." She is the author of eleven books and will be reading from Wednesday, the world's first Facebook co-created poetry book. Charles R. Goldman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Carolina's School of Medicine, attests, "Her teaching and group facilitation skills are outstanding. Her warm, supportive style encourages people to reach deep within themselves to express thoughts and feelings they were not even aware they had. Her knowledge of writing and of the psychology of creativity and healing is amazing."