Kevin E. Anderson

Toledo, Ohio psychologist Kevin Anderson, Ph.D (1960- ) says, "Writing first came to me like a crocus coming up through crusty snow in spring. "I could not figure out what was inspiring me to spend time on creative writing between classes in calculus, thermodynamics, and physics in the engineering program I was studying," he says. After finishing a degree in math, he became a psychologist. Writing remained something he dabbled in for years until "a deep enough crisis came into my life that I turned to writing to help me heal." He is the creator of the nested meditation form first introduced in Divinity in Disguise, which Spirituality & Health named one of the best spiritual books of 2003. His writing has won two Catholic Press Association awards. An article he wrote for Psychotherapy Networker, "Dark Passage: Personal Suffering and the Quest for Wisdom," has been read online nearly 400,000 times. Of his path to the writing life, Anderson says, "It took me a long time to accept that not being able to fully understand why I'm compelled to write is perhaps the best indication that it may be inspired by a creative energy that is bigger than me and beyond all understanding."