Carol Lee Flinders
received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California
at Berkeley, specializing in medieval studies. She then spent fifteen years
writing about natural foods, co-authoring the popular Laurel's Kitchen
cookbooks and
posting a weekly syndicated newspaper column.
In 1990 she returned to her field of
study and wrote Enduring Grace: Living
Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Subsequent books include
At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a
Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst and, most recently,
Rebalancing the World. Dr.
Flinders has taught courses in mystical literature at UC, Berkeley, and at
the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is currently a Fellow of the
Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University.
Carol's next book is called
Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women
of Faith In Action, and it profiles four contemporary women that she believes
live and work in the "spiritual mother-line" of women like Saint Teresa of
Avila and Saint Catherine of Genoa. It will be published by Putnam/Tarcher
in Spring, 2006.
Carol lives in Northern California at the
Blue Mountain Center of Meditation with her husband, Tim, with whom she
co-authored The Making of a Teacher.
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