Merrilee BeckmanMerrilee Beckman earned a BA in religious studies from the University of Iowa. She worked as Assistant Chaplain at the University of Iowa Hospitals, taught in public schools in Iowa and South Dakota, and spent two summers on a lookout tower in Idaho orking for the US Forest Service. She later studied the works of Carl Jung, which led her to become a dream analyst and develop her passion for magical realism. Read More Read Less