Linda Carroll was born in 1944 in San Francisco and adopted into an Italian Catholic family. Very early, she discovered poetry as a form of prayer and a window into an expanded life. In 1961, when Linda graduated from high school, San Francisco was already buzzing with counterculture music, arts, and style, and Linda found herself selling beads and going to peace marches. After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the seventies, she moved to New Zealand, where she raised children, sheep, and many dogs. She returned to Oregon in the eighties and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the Imago work of Harville Hendrix, the PAIRS training of Dr. Laurie Gordon, and their own insights,study and practices. They continue to offer retreats and seminars all over the world, and Linda is currently at work on a book project, Love’s Four Journeys, based on this work. As an adult, Linda found her birth mother, the novelist Paula Fox, and began to understand her deep-seated love of poetry anew. In 2006, her memoir, Her Mother’s Daughter, was published by Doubleday. She has five children, ten grandchildren, and lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband, two Jack Russells and a siamese cat, and continues her lifelong path of spiritual seeking.