CAROL LYNN PEARSON has been a professional writer, speaker and performer for many years.  Her autobiography, Goodbye, I Love You, tells the story of her marriage to a homosexual man, their divorce, ongoing friendship, and her caring for him as he died of AIDS.   This story made her a guest on such programs as “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and “Good Morning, America.”  She has been featured in “People Magazine.”

Her new book, No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones examines the tragic and unnecessary goodbyes we continue to say around the issue of homosexuality, and also presents many inspiring stories of families finding new and positive ways to relate to their gay children.  Rabbi Harold Kushner (author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People) says of No More Goodbyes, “Thank you, Carol Lynn Pearson, for reminding us that the task of any religion is to teach us whom we’re required to love, not whom we’re entitled to hate.”  (www.nomoregoodbyes.com)

A new stage play of Ms. Pearson’s premiered with Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake City November 16-26, “Facing East,” the story of a Mormon couple dealing with the suicide of their gay son.  After 11 sold-out performances in Utah, the play is now scheduled for an off-Broadway run in May-June, as well as a San Francisco run in August of 2007.  (www.planbtheatre.org)

The recent Consider the Butterfly: Transforming Your Life Through Meaningful Coincidence tells forty-four of her personal stories, showing how the phenomenon of synchronicity can bless our lives daily.  This book was a finalist in the Inspiration/Spiritual category of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Awards.

Many of Ms. Pearson’s poems have been widely reprinted in such places as the Ann Landers column and Chicken Soup for the Soul, as well as college literary textbooks.  The poems appear now in a compilation, Beginnings and Beyond. 

Ms. Pearson has written numerous educational motion pictures, including the well-known “Cipher in the Snow,” as well as many plays and musicals, two commissioned by Robert Redford’s Sundance Theater.

A major contribution of Ms. Pearson has been writing and performing a one-woman play, “Mother Wove the Morning,” in which she plays sixteen women throughout history in search of the feminine divine.  The play was performed over 300 times internationally and is now available on a videotape that earned an award from “Booklist” as “one of the top 25 videos of the year.”  Now adapted for multiple performers, the play was given an “equity showcase” production in New York City in May of 2005.

Ms. Pearson has an M.A. in theater, is the mother of four grown children, and lives in Walnut Creek, California.  You can visit her at www.clpearson.com.