Amy Newmark is Chicken Soup for the Soul’s author, editor-in-chief, and publisher, after a 30-year career as a writer, speaker, financial analyst, and business executive in the worlds of finance and telecommunications. Amy is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where she majored in Portuguese, minored in French, and traveled extensively. She and her husband have four grown children and grandchildren.

After a long career writing books on telecommunications, voluminous financial reports, business plans, and corporate press releases, Chicken Soup for the Soul is a breath of fresh air for Amy. She has fallen in love with Chicken Soup for the Soul and its life-changing books, and really enjoys putting these books together for Chicken Soup’s wonderful readers. She has co-authored and/or edited the last 196 Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, all the ones published since mid-2008.

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Jack Canfield is an award-winning speaker and an internationally recognized leader in personal development and peak performance strategies. As the beloved originator of the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL® series, he's taught millions of individuals his modernized formulas for success, and now certifies trainers to teach his content and methodology all over the world.

Jack is the author and co-author of more than 150 books (including 66 bestsellers) with more than 100 million copies in print in 47 languages around the world. His bestselling book, THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES: HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE has been hailed as the new self-improvement classic. In 2014, SUCCESS magazine named him "One of the Most Influential Leaders in Personal Growth and Achievement." He holds the Guinness World Record for having the greatest number of books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.

Terri Elders' first byline appeared in 1946 on a piece about how bats saved her family's home from fire, published on the children's page of the Portland Oregonian. At nine years old, she hadn't known that her title, "Bats in Our Belfry," would lead readers to suspect her family's sanity.

Unrepentant, she's continued to spill the beans, sharing secrets in the form of anthology stories. Her indiscretions have been featured in over 150 books, including such series as Chicken Soup for the Soul, A Cup of Comfort, Thin Threads, Moments and HCI Ultimate.

Initially a high school English and journalism teacher, Terri changed careers in the late '60s, and became a licensed clinical social worker, after earning an MSW from UCLA. She's worked with such agencies as Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, the Arkansas Department of Health, and both Peace Corps and AmeriCorps*VISTA.

Terri served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize, Dominican Republic, Seychelles, and the Gulf States with the Crisis Corps Hurricane Katrina Initiative. From 2000 to 2004 she worked at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington DC as a program and training specialist for community health and HIV/AIDS, first for InterAmerica/Pacific Region and subsequently for Europe/Mediterranean/Asia Region. In 2003, UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Affairs honored her as a Distinguished Alumna. In 2006 she received the UCLA Alumni Award for Community Service.

From 2006 to 2014 Terri served as a public member of the Washington State Medical Commission, appointed by then-Governor Christine Gregoire. In 2018-2019 she served as a member of the Orange County, CA, Grand Jury. Since 2015 she has been a California AARP State Volunteer for the 45th Congressional District.

She's happy to be back in her native Southern Califoria, close to her beloved Pacific Ocean.

Sally Willard Burbank started life on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont. After graduating summa cum laude from Texas Christian University, she completed her medical training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Nathan, and is the proud mother of two college students. She has practiced internal medicine for over 25 years and penned Patients I Will Never Forget thanks to her inspiring and hilarious patients. She loves to read, write, bicycle, cook, and cater to the whims of her demanding but adorable silky terrier, Tiger Lily. She does not enjoy the six hours per week she commits to the Elliptical, but does it anyway to keep up with her love of all things chocolate.

Check out her webpage at: www.sallywillardburbank.com

Enjoy her recent blog posts at: www.patientswewillneverforget.wordpress.com