About the editor...

Shavawn M. Berry received her Master of Professional Writing (MPW) degree specializing in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1998. She currently teaches writing fulltime at Arizona State University including composition, business writing, and creative writing courses and workshops. She specializes in spiritual and healing writing as well as writing aimed at changing/creating discourse. Ms. Berry’s prose, essays, articles, and poetry have been published in Poet Lore, California Quarterly, Westview - A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Concho River Review, North Atlantic Review, Synapse, Blue Mountain Arts/SPS, Living Buddhism, addictionsolutions.com, and buddhajones.com, among others. She is currently working on a spiritual memoir, a collection of poetry, a novel, and a collection of essays.
You can read samples of her work or peruse her blog by visiting her website at http://www.shavawnmberry.com