Michael Kearney has worked as a palliative care and hospice
physician for forty years, sitting at the bedsides of people who are seriously
ill and dying. He has published three books, Mortally Wounded: Stories
of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing,
which was a bestseller in Ireland; A
Place of Healing: Working with Nature and Soul at the End of Life
; and The
Nest in the Stream
, a nature-based spiritual memoir. Becoming Forest is his first novel.



Michael Kearney lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his
wife, Radhule, and their four-legged friends Lucy and Kitty.