I realised that I should introduce myself more fully so that you have a sense of the host and facilitator here! So here goes... I'm British by birth and currently a New Mexico-based writer, artist, and creative coach helping others find belonging through story, landscape, and art. That's my main motivation... As a creative coach, author and artist based in rural New Mexico, I explore how belonging and creativity intersect through stories, workshops, and the visual. Sometimes belonging isn’t about the place welcoming us in but it’s about showing up anyway. About learning the shape of the wind, the bite of the cold, the way the dogs press close at night. If we stay long enough, we can understand how we can belong anywhere. How do I know that? From living a nomadic life since being a teenager in small town England, I've lived in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala and the States, always finding community. I'm the author of Stay, G’Dog, Hidden, When No One’s Looking, Lucky Shot, and Lucky Find, as well as her award winning travelogue, Van Life. My shorter work has been published in Los Angeles Review, Hunger Mountain, Santa Fe Writers Project, and others. The awards include winning the NM/AZ Book Awards for my fiction, Honorable Mention for the Quill Prize (Red Hen Press) and more recently long-listed with the Santa Fe Writers Project.