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Biography


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. She knew at the age of 6 years old, after reading her first 'big book,' that she wanted to be a novelist. This passionate desire has given her life focus and commitment. She comes from a maternal line of healers and psychics and has always sensed the numinous in all things. She cherishes a vision of the human potential for a richly creative material life sourced in spirit.
Traci lives in Manhattan with her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, three daughters, stepdaughter, and a Westie, all of whom are wonderfully opinionated creatures. Traci loves books, yoga, horseback riding, and, most of all, travel. The central joys of her life are her husband and children, her spiritual path, and her writing.

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, Parenting & 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.
At the same time she is raising three daughters, who are now 17 years, 13 years, and 3 years old. She is also fortunate in having a lovely 17 year old stepdaughter.

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.

 

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Husband Sabin Howard in his studio