About the Author

Mark Bryan, co-founder with Julia Cameron, of The Artist's Way Workshops, is a Harvard trained educator with a specialty in human development and psychology, and is a former member and sponsor of the Dialogue Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught business creativity and adult development in settings as diverse as the Penn State Engineering School, the halls of Moscow, Gorky and Kazan, and the boardrooms of American corporations. In 1990, Mark served on the Free Enterprise transition team in the former Soviet Union, and has been a new products inventor for Fortune 500 companies, which he built in China, Taiwan and Korea. He has also written for television, acted in commercials, and is currently the Director of the Father Project in Los Angeles, California, a non-profit organization that works to reunite fathers and their children.

Mark is a gifted teacher and lecturer and has often appeared in the media, including Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Live, America's Talking, NBC News, the BBC, Women's Wear Daily, New Age Journal, The Chicago Tribune, People, the Los Angeles Times, Self, and Mirabella.