Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of the spiritual memoir, Swinging on the Garden Gate (Skinner House Books), a collection of personal essays called On the Threshold:  Home, Hardwood, and Holiness (Westview Press), and Writing the Sacred Journey:  The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir (Skinner House Books). Her work is also anthologized in Views from the Loft (Milkweed Editions), My Red Couch and Other Stories on Seeking a Feminist Faith (Pilgrim Press), Riding Shotgun:  Women Write About Their Mothers (Minnesota Historical Society Press), Blessed Bi Spirit (Continuum), and appears in various literary and religious journals.  She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board artists’ fellowship, the Loft Career Initiative Grant, and is a Minnesota Book Awards finalist.