The author is a practicing psychotherapist and board certified pastoral counselor, who refocused on her writing after facilitating a spirituality group and participating in a poetry exhibit at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies including the following: Ariga, Muse Apprentice Guild, Enfuse, Eintouist, Poetism, Poetic Hours, Verses, SpaceBreather, SubtleTea, Unarmed, Pure Christians, A flippant Way, Listening to the Birth of Crystals, Promise, Subjective Substance,among others. Dr. Bielowski has published a first collection of poetry in a chapbook Spirit Echoes and has received a contract from PublishAmerica for her second anthology Contemplative Persona, scheduled for release in 2004. She was recently named .New Talent. by Little Treasures/SoulComfort. In her leisure time, the author chases three feline muses: Sedgwick. Joshua, and Sara.

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