ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nancy Jewel Poer was born and raised in California. As a child she loved horses and outdoor life and graduated from the University of Arizona with hopes of becoming a veterinarian. But her large family of six children, three sons and three daughters, became the creative center of her work, along with teaching in the International Waldorf schools.

Nancy is known across the United States, for her lively lectures on Waldorf education, parenting, child development, the spiritual feminine and the role of women in America, and threshold work. She felt called to threshold work, first assisting with births, and then pioneering support with home deaths in the community, which she has done for the past twenty-five years. She has helped in the founding of threshold groups throughout the country. An artist as well as a writer, she has published A Child's First Book and art prints for children.

She is co-founder of Rudolf Steiner College, a Waldorf teachers' college near Sacramento, and has taught there for twenty-six years. prior to that she taught children at all grade levels, K-12, and began three kindergartens, the last as the founding teacher for the Cedar Springs Waldorf School in Placerville, California.

She lives with her husband of many years in the Sierra foothills on White Feather ranch where they raise cattle, have a bio-dynamic garden, sponsor youth conferences, and Nancy gives women's retreats and threshold conferences to help pass the work on to others.