Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is a poet, writer, teacher, and writing facilitator with over 30 years behind the pen. She coordinates the Transformative Language Arts program at Goddard College, where she teaches. She is author of seven books, including Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life, and three books of poetry, Animals in the House, Lot's Wife, and Reading the Body.  Most recently, she co-edited (with Janet Tallman) The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader.  She also writes Field Notes & Weather Reports, a blog on how to live.

Caryn has a PhD in literature with specialties in poetry and mythology, and she's a certified poetry therapist. She was awarded the 2006-2008 Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship for Poetry, the Rocky Mountain National Park artist-in-residency for 2005, the National Association for Poetry Therapy education award, the City of Lawrence Phoenix Award for literary excellence, among other awards. Her poetry and prose are published in over 50 literary journals and anthologies, and she gives frequent readings in the area.

Her performance pieces include, with Kelley Hunt and the 940 Dancers, "Dangerous Curves: Breast Cancer Awareness" and "Dangerous Curves II: Surviving and Thriving," and with poet Joy Sawyer, "A Fire in the Dark: A Conversation in Poetry Between Two Seekers."

She facilitates workshops on writing, callings and right livelihood, and related topics frequently, especially in the cancer community through Turning Point of Kansas City, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and at conferences and retreat centers; and workshops for low-income women at the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority.

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