Nora Gallagheris the best-selling author ofChanging Light, a novel that received outstanding reviews and of two memoirs, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in FaithandPracticing Resurrection. She is licensed to preach by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, a preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Yale Divinity School. She is married to novelist and poet, Vincent Stanley.