Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D.Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D.Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D., is a psychologist, teacher and writer who co-founded SAGE, a psycho-spiritual program for elders, helped guide a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation center in Marin; taught Eastern spirituality and healing practices; imagery; meditation; and women’s health at San Francisco State University. She has guided Healing in Nature retreats in Hawaii and the Southwest, and maintained a counseling practice in Marin for many years. She co-authored Practical Buddhism: The Kagyu Path with Ole Nydahl and edited five books and four meditation booklets on Tibetan Buddhism. She published a textbook: Compassionate Healing: Eastern Perspectives in 1992 which included two of her poems. Her poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, Potpourri, Poetic Realm, Poetica, Mindprints, Dream Fantasy International, Beginnings, Hawaii Island Journal, In Our Own Words, Animals in Poetry, From the Web, HeartLodge, Out of Line, Sendero, Buckle&, Iodine, Asphodel, Tiger’s Eye, Nomad’s Choir, and The New Verse News. Dr. Aronoff received a prize in the 1999/2000 Common Ground spiritual poetry contest, judged by Jane Hirshfield and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She won the Tiger’s Eye blog contest on the writing life and has participated three times in Braided Lives, A Collaboration of Artists and Poets. A chapbook of Native American/Hawaiian poems, Cornsilk, was published by Indian Heritage Council in 2004, and her illustrated poetry book, The Nature of Music, was published by Pelican Pond in 2005. An expanded, illustrated Cornsilk was also published in 2006. Currently, she resides in a rural area of Hawaii—working her land, meditating in nature, and writing.