Martha Graham-Waldon is a writer, spiritual entrepreneur, and armchair activist who happily resides in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California with her family and a menagerie of pets. Her articles have been published locally in The Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Metro, the Press Banner and internationally in the Canadian Dance Connection and several online journals. She is a winner of the Women’s Memoirs contest for a vignette that will appear in the forthcoming ebook Tales of Our Lives. A member of the National Association of Memoir Writers, she also loves travel, the outdoors, Jazzercise, and music. She is thrilled to have debuted her first book, the memoir Nothing Like Normal ~ Surviving a Sibling’s Schizophrenia with Black Opal Books.