Born and raised in Utah, Sherrie Mills Johnson has also lived in San Antonia, Texas, and Bremerhaven, Germany. Mother to ten children and wife to one husband, which should have been education enough, Johnson returned to college after her children were all in school and completed her BA, MA, and PhD degrees. After fifteen years as a professor at Brigham Young University, she started her own training and consulting company, Hearken Institute, and now finds great pleasure in helping people optimize, energize, and vitalize their lives so they live in joy. Addicted to words, she writes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction whenever she is awake.