Carol Dougherty received her JD from Duquesne University School of Law, where this book began as a research project. She has worked professionally with the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, City Theatre Company, and University of Pittsburgh Theatre, and was also Managing Director of the Berkshire Theatre Festival from 1988-1990. She has published a political thriller, THE SANTIAGO INHERITANCE, received a Master of Divinity degree from Naropa University, and is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest, ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi