Our website is www.soulspacehealing.com. Our guest today is Joie Davidow. Joie is the author of a memoir, Marked for Life (Harmony), and Infusions of Healing (Fireside), as well as the novel I Wouldn't Leave Rome to Go to Heaven. With Esmeralda Santiago, she is the co-editor of two story anthologies Las Mamis and Las Christmas (both Alfred A. Knopf). She was a co-founder of the L.A. Weekly and founder of L.A. Style and Sí magazines. She lives in Rome, Italy, where she leads creative writing workshops and acts as a freelance book editor and writing coach.

Her newest book, the historical novel An Unofficial Marriage, published in March 2021 (Arcade) is the the story of the life-long love of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev for the famed opera diva Pauline Viardot.

Joie has recently completed asecond historical novel, Anything but Yes, the true story a young woman's struggle to defend her identity in the face of relentless attempts to destroy it. Www.Joiedavidow.com