Katrina Irene Gould has spent thirty fulfilling years as a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon, and it’s possible this orientation has found its way into her nonfiction, both implicitly and explicitly. But she trusts her writing isn’t limited to the outlook of her chosen profession – life is too vast to be corralled by any one perspective.

Steve Almond says, “Writing is a forgiveness racket,” and Gould writes in hopes of demonstrating that we can examine our complicated human experiences and create more compassion for our struggles by doing so – since often the person we most need to forgive is ourselves.

Gould’s personal essays, poetry, reviews, dharma writing, and short stories have appeared in HerStry; Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace; The Gilded Weathervane; Ink Nest Poetry; Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Adanna Literary Journal, Glacial Hills Review, Literally Stories, The Pine Street Sangha newsletter, and many others.