Leaf Seligman began writing during her Tennessee childhood where she encountered the midway, tent revivals, and the Civil Rights movement. She has taught writing in colleges, jails, prisons, and community settings since 1985 and worked as a minister, a jail chaplain, a youth services caseworker, and a restorative justice practitioner. She is the author of 'Opening the Window: Sabbath Meditations' and 'A Pocket Book of Prompts'. Her current projects include a novel, a memoir, and a series of death row monologues, all attuned to redemption and belonging.