N. Thomas Johnson-Medland is the CEO of Lighthouse Hospice, Inc., of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of Bridges, Paths, and Waters; Dirt, Sky, and Mountains, Cairn-Space, Entering the Stream, Along the Road, From the Belly of the Whale, Dance Macabre, Windows and Doors, as well as Turning Within and Duende.

Glinda G. Johnson-Medland is a poet, therapist, and writer who lives in the Pocono Mountains with Tom, Zachary and Josiah. She loves gardening, the outdoors, and finding a quiet spot in the sun to read from time to time.

Bob and Sarina Cook are the proprietors of Cook Family Photography (www.cookfamilyphotography.net), and live in Mount Pocono, PA. They are friends of Tom and Glinda's.
N. Thomas Johnson-Medland is an end-of-life specialist and doula. He is the author of Wayfaring Stranger; River Bending; Coming Back Home; In the Same Place; Bathed in Abrasion; Bridges, Paths, and Waters: Dirt, Sky, and Mountains; Cairn-Space; Entering the Stream; Along the Road; From the Belly of the Whale; Danse Macabre; Feed My Sheep: Lead My Sheep; Windows and Doors; For the Beauty of the Earth; Duende; and Turning Within. He lives a stone's throw from the Susquehanna River in Columbia, Pennsylvania-just outside Lancaster-with his wife, Glinda. Tom and Glinda have two adult sons, Zachary Aidan and Josiah Gabriel.

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Glinda Johnson-Medland is a published writer and poet who grew up in Connecticut and now resides outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has spent the majority of her career life as a social worker and therapist. She is currently the Executive Director of word hive: a space for poets; a new nonprofit committed to bringing poetry to local communities in the form of workshops, poetry readings and collaboration with other artists. She is currently working on grants and other supports for word hive. She has published poems and articles in a variety of journals beginning in 1985. She has also had her poems published in a book that both Tom and she collected and coedited, published by Wipf and Stock Publishers of Oregon. That volume came out in 2013. It is entitled For the Beauty of The Earth: Poems from the Child-Heart About the Planet, and features both Glinda and Tom's poetry while spotlighting 23 local poets from the Pocono Mountains of PA.