Literary Biography     Fueled by a need for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with psychological and spiritual transformation, Ms. Kleefeld is the author of four award-winning poetry books that explore these archetypal themes. These books have been used as texts in university courses worldwide and have been translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Her book, The Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing Your Personal Mythology (Merrill-West Publishing), inspired by the I Ching, with an introduction by Laura Archera Huxley, combines her visual art, philosophical prose and poetry, and includes corresponding quotes from the I Ching and Tarot.  Healers as well as professors of art and psychology have also used Alchemy as an inspirational text and oracular guidebook. An interview with Ms. Kleefeld is included in the anthology Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium (Crossing Press), as are interviews with Alan Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, Dr. Timothy Leary and other cutting-edge thinkers of our time. Her most recent book, Kissing Darkness: Love Poems and Art, a lovers’ dialogue in poetry written in collaboration with David Wayne Dunn, was published in 2003 by Riverwood Books, an imprint of White Cloud Press (publishers of Kahlil Gibran).