Gioia Timpanelli is the author of Sometimes the Soul, two novellas of Sicily (WW Norton, 1998) and What Makes A Child Lucky (WW Norton, 2008). One of the founders of the current world wide revival of storytelling, she received a Maharishi Award for “…enlivening within the listener that field of pure consciousness that is the source of all stories.” Currently she is broadcasting Story Traveler for North Country Public Radio, http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org.