Robert Ellis Gordon is an award-winning novelist and essayist who taught story writing in the prisons for many years. In 1998 he was stricken with a fatal illness. He survived and subsequently underwent intensive training in multiple forms of energetic healing and in counseling. Robert is a practicing Reiki master, a columnist for the Huffington Post, and is currently serving an apprenticeship as a service and therapy dog trainer. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his literary work including the Washington State Book Award.