Karin Holsinger Sherman holds a Master's in Christian Spirituality from the Franciscan School of Theology/Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and a Certificate from the Cambridgeshire Course in Spiritual Direction. She has worked in environmental education and advocacy and children's ministry. Her love of creation, writing, art, and the monastic liturgy of the hours, especially the Anglican tradition of Compline, inspired this book. She has published an academic work, "A Question of Being," and is currently employed in her most important work as mother of two young children outside of San Francisco, California.