DORÉ DEVERELL lived for many years in Los Angeles, California, where she lectured, taught, counselled and wrote on health-related subjects. Since moving to Sacramento and attending Rudolf Steiner College, her work has included tutoring at the local Steiner-Waldorf School.

She is currently writing about her experience of child abuse, alcoholism, cancer and suicide, and how overcoming them can be a path of spiritual development. She was born in Oklahoma in 1923 and has two children and three grandchildren.