Dr. Alla Renee Bozarth is an award-winning poet and author of numerous titles of prose books, poetry collections and audiotapes, including Stars in Your Bones, Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello, Wisdom and Wonderment and Water Women.

She is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, history-making women who became the first female Episcopal priests in 1974. Dr. Bozarth holds a doctorate in performing arts from Northwestern University and is a certified Gestalt therapist.

She practices soul care of herself and soul-mending and soul-tending of others at Wisdom House near Mt. Hood in western Oregon. Many of her poems, along with the art of owner and designer, Susan Lind-kanne, are featured on Bear Blessings Soul Cards.

". . as her words dance across the pages, Alla herself dances into the reader's heart."
The New Review of Books and Religion