Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst, Psychologist, author; Clinical Supervisor, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; and in private practice in central Vermont. She is chairperson of the non-profit "Enlightening Conversations: Buddhism and Psychoanalysis Meeting in Person" that hosts conferences in cities around the USA. She has published many chapters and articles, as well as fourteen books that have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her most recent books are The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance (Little, Brown: 2008) and The Cambridge Companion to Jung: New and Revised, of which she is co-editor with Terence Dawson (Cambridge University Press: 2008). She is working on a new book, tentatively called Love Broken Open. Polly is a long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism (since 1971) and Vipassanā (since 1998) and a mindfulness teacher. young-eisendrath.com.

Nancy Cater, has an undergraduate degree in psychology, a Master’s Degree in Social Work, a J.D. (juris doctorate), and a Ph.D in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author of Electra: Tracing a Feminine Myth Through the Western Imagination. Since taking over the editorship of Spring Journal, she has also created a book publishing imprint of the journal called Spring Journal Books and has published 78 books about depth psychology in the last ten years.