Kathleen Melin is the author of the progressive education and parenting memoir By Heart  (Clover Valley Press 2008).  Her creative writing has appeared in regional and national publications including A Woman’s Place, Feminist Parenting, and Eric Utne’s Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac.  She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, and Summit School for the Arts.  She loves writing and nurturing writing in others with classes and collaborative projects.