Michael Kearney, MDMichael Kearney has worked as a palliative care and hospice physician for forty years, sitting at the bedsides of people who are seriously ill and dying. He has published three books, Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, nd Healing, which was a bestseller in Ireland; A Place of Healing: Working with Nature and Soul at the End of Life; and The Nest in the Stream, a nature-based spiritual memoir. Becoming Forest is his first novel. Michael Kearney lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Radhule, and their four-legged friends Lucy and Kitty.  Read More Read Less