Transformative Writingas evidenced by the diversity of writers who contribute to this ground-breaking collectioncomes from specific experiences, insights, stories and metaphors, and through those specifics, illuminates whats enduring, whats life-giving, what makes us human. Each writer in this book holds up a lantern of transformative writing to show us not just the way through the dark, but how meeting the darkness with curiosity and compassion makes life shimmer with meaning. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, founder and coordinator of Transformative Language Arts (TLA) at Goddard College