Carol Kline, a five-time New York Times bestselling author, has devoted her career to teaching, writing, and speaking about consciousness and personal growth.

Over the last 30 years, Carol has co-authored more than a dozen books, with some of the world’s top transformational leaders—including Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, Marci Shimoff, Lisa Nichols, and Gay Hendricks.

Those books include Conscious Luck, Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason, You’ve Got to Read this Book, The Ultimate Dog Lover and The Ultimate Cat Lover, as well as five books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Inspired by her experience writing Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul in 1997, she became deeply involved in animal rescue work. This led her to help run and build an animal shelter called Noah’s Ark Animal Foundation in Fairfield, Iowa.

Today, Carol lives in Ojai, California with her husband, Larry, and their dog, Buddy, and is at work on a number of writing, business, and service projects.