Family Background
Traci L. Slatton was born into a Navy family. She grew up in Great Lakes, IL; Norfolk, VA; Olathe, KS; Millington, TN; and Groton, CT. Traci now lives in Manhattan with her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, three daughters, stepdaughter, and two labs, all of whom are wonderfully opinionated creatures.
Education
At the age of 16, upon completing her junior year of high school, Traci was accepted at Yale University. She graduated at the age of 20 with a B.A. in English. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Columbia University in 1988. As part of her spiritual quest, she attended the renowned four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing, graduating in 1996.
Work & Writing Career
For several years, Traci had a hands-on healing practice. She worked with people with migraines, cancer, infertility, HIV, chronic fatigue, and those in emotional and spiritual crises, or what she calls 'spiritual unfoldment.' For disease, she believed that her role as a healer was not to fix her clients, but to go with them on a journey of questioning old patterns, discovering blocks in the body's natural flow, and re-educating the consciousness in a more whole way of being.
Traci has published dozens of poems, short stories, and articles in magazines and literary journals. She greatly enjoyed researching Edgar Cayce, quantum physics, and Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields for PIERCING TIME & SPACE. For the historical novel IMMORTAL, she inquired deeply into the art and life of the Italian Renaissance, a period when thinkers like Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci, and Marsilio Ficino were engaged in questioning the nature and relationship of science, art, and the soul. THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR is a romp through the art history byways of vampire lore, and FALLEN is the first in a romantic trilogy set after a global ecological cataclysm. DANCING IN THE TABERNACLE is her first book of poetry. THE ART OF LIFE is a sculpture book she wrote with her husband.
Traci L. Slatton was born into a Navy family. She grew up in Great Lakes, IL; Norfolk, VA; Olathe, KS; Millington, TN; and Groton, CT. Traci now lives in Manhattan with her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, three daughters, stepdaughter, and two labs, all of whom are wonderfully opinionated creatures.
Education
At the age of 16, upon completing her junior year of high school, Traci was accepted at Yale University. She graduated at the age of 20 with a B.A. in English. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Columbia University in 1988. As part of her spiritual quest, she attended the renowned four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing, graduating in 1996.
Work & Writing Career
For several years, Traci had a hands-on healing practice. She worked with people with migraines, cancer, infertility, HIV, chronic fatigue, and those in emotional and spiritual crises, or what she calls 'spiritual unfoldment.' For disease, she believed that her role as a healer was not to fix her clients, but to go with them on a journey of questioning old patterns, discovering blocks in the body's natural flow, and re-educating the consciousness in a more whole way of being.
Traci has published dozens of poems, short stories, and articles in magazines and literary journals. She greatly enjoyed researching Edgar Cayce, quantum physics, and Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields for PIERCING TIME & SPACE. For the historical novel IMMORTAL, she inquired deeply into the art and life of the Italian Renaissance, a period when thinkers like Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci, and Marsilio Ficino were engaged in questioning the nature and relationship of science, art, and the soul. THE BOTTICELLI AFFAIR is a romp through the art history byways of vampire lore, and FALLEN is the first in a romantic trilogy set after a global ecological cataclysm. DANCING IN THE TABERNACLE is her first book of poetry. THE ART OF LIFE is a sculpture book she wrote with her husband.