Pat Black-Gould is a psy­chol­o­gist and an award-win­ning author and play­wright. Her work has appeared in lit­er­ary jour­nals and antholo­gies. Her children’s book, The Crys­tal Beads, was first pub­lished as a short sto­ry. It won first place hon­ors in both a state and nation­al com­pe­ti­tion. Pat was also a director/​producer of sum­mer stock the­ater and a mur­der mys­tery din­ner the­ater company.