• Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times
• Normal Reactions to Loss, Injury, and Catastrophe
• Healing from Terrorism Sickness
• Postscript from Dr. Estés and An Assignment for You from Dr. Estés

Photo by Clara Grifin

Dr. Estés has been hard at work these last many years and an enormous amount of her work will be released into the world beginning now and into 2007 and 2008.

Articles of interest by
Dr. Estés

• Dr. Estés blogs on The Moderate Voice web site
• "Story As Medicine — On Recovering From Shock"
  Oprah Magazine, November 2001
• "Conversation Between Two Ungovernable Women& #151; Alice Walker and Clarissa Pinkola Estés."
  The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2001
• "I Am Your Mother, on visitations by Our Lady of Guadalupe"
  US Catholic Magazine, December 2002

In 2000, Dr. Estés made her debut to a sold out audience at Carnegie Hall with Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Jessye Norman who together gave the world premier of a commissioned work called Woman.Life.Song. Dr. Estés' contributions to this libretto (music by British composer Judith Weir) were also performed to a standing room only audience of 6000 in London's Prince Albert Hall, and at the renowned Salzburg Festival.

Forthcoming books 2005
• The Dangerous Old Woman (Knopf)
• La Curandera: Healing in Two Worlds (Texas A & M University Press)
• La Pasionaria — A Manifesto on the Creative Fire (Collected Poetry of Clarissa Pinkola Estés) (Knopf)
• Tenth Anniversary Edition of Woman Who Run With the Wolves
• The Selected Papers of Toni Wolff (with B. Hinshaw, M. Auer) (Daimon Verlag Press, Zurich)

Recent Releases from Sounds True
• Dream Analysis for Beginners
• Bedtime Stories: Myths and Stories For Sweet, Sweet Dreams

Books currently in print
• The Tales of The Brothers Grimm, hardback and softback; (Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club, N.Y.)
• The Faithful Gardener, hardback (Harper SanFrancisco)
• The Gift of Story, hardback 1993 (Ballantine/Random House)
• Women Who Run With the Wolves, in three editions, mass market, trade paper, and hardback. (Ballantine/Random House)

OTHER NEWS
• As of 2003 WWRWTW is published in 30 languages, and holds a record for being on the NYT bestseller lists for 145 weeks over three year's time.
   
• This year, a dream came true for Dr. Estés. She and her foreign and domestic agents have strived for years to find publishers in the Near and Mid East. Given the political situations, this has proved next to impossible. Although many of the women and men of the countries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria and Egypt and other countries have read Women Who Run With the Wolves in English, they have begged that the work be published in their mother tongues so that the older generation that does not speak English, French or German might have advantage of the work. This year, our most recent publisher, and the first from any country in the mideast, is Turkey, a beautiful country of Islamic and Christian people who have inherited from the Ottoman Empire, the Ancient Religions and from Modern culture altogether. Dr. Estés' publishers in Turkey are brave souls who feel their nation is poised at a new threshold, and that "Women Who Run With the Wolves is an example of how an amalgamation of the ancient and the modern can be made that gives new and exciting life to readers and culture."
   
• The year 2001 was the first year that the "QPB #151; Clarissa Pinkola Estés International Storytelling Prize" was awarded. The largest paperback club internationally, teamed with Dr. Estés to create this prize which awards a substantial book club contract to the author and features the recipient's book in all their catalogues. The prize carries an additional award of $5000 which is given to the recipient at the annual gala in New York City. Dr. Estés was drawn to teaming with QPB in this venture in order to underline the importance of storytelling in every day lives, and because QPB works hard to gather the most eclectic selection of books in the business. It is the one book club that tries to satisfy the reader's cravings for different perspectives, undiscovered authors, strange adventures, and fresh ideas. All of Dr. Estés books have been main selections of QPB and shares that standing with other authors of renown such as Isabelle Allende, Steven King, Sherman Alexie and others.
   
• The work of La Sociedad de Guadalupe in devotion to La Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe continues as one of the contributors to the General Fund of NCR for investigation into rapes of nuns in Africa, and assisting in sponsoring Chinese spiritual teachers to be educated in the United States. Prison ministry is continuous.

  Dr Estés says, "With PEN, we join in placing pressure on prime ministers, chairmen and presidents of countries that imprison writers. With Pen West, we have been giving ongoing support in particular to the work of Taslima Nasrin, now freed doctor, writer and activist from Bangladesh who was imprisoned by the ultraconservative force in India, finally released, and then had to flee from a death-sentence placed on her head. Similar to one imposed on writer Salman Rushdie, the ultraconservatives said it was Godly duty for any religious person to kill her on sight, no matter where, no matter when.

  "She is a poet who dared to write about holy men killing an innocent woman by stoning her to death while laughing amongst themselves.

  This indeed is a wild woman from the other side of the world, a deeply religious woman who will live to inspire others with her bravery; to be an exemplar to others who are imprisoned in any way. What else is there to our lives but to show, by example, that the spirit can never be imprisoned& #151; it will take advantage of the merest crack in any prison wall and it leap out as brilliant light and run toward freedom. The spiritual drive to be a free human being cannot be contained by man-made means."

  La Sociedad continues to support literacy for adults, intervention in battering in families, and in "placing the best medicine in the worst of the wounds."
   

• Dr. Estés was recently nominated for induction in the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

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Dr. Estés is a former executive director and director of training for the C.G. Jung Center for Education and Research. Her doctorate is in intercultural studies and clinical psychology, and she has taught and practiced privately for thirty-three years.

Her published works include The Gift of Story, The Faithful Gardener, Women Who Run With the Wolves (published in thirty languages worldwide and on the New York Times best seller list for three years), and an eleven volume collection of original, best-selling audio works including a twelve-part live performance series, Theatre of the Imagination, broadcast on Pacifica and National Public Radio networks across America and Canada.

For her lifelong social activism and writing, she is the recipient of the Las Primeras Award from MANA, The National Latina Foundation in Washington, D.C.; The President's Medal for Social Justice from The Union Institute; the first recipient of the Joseph Campbell "Keeper of the Lore" Award; Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts; The Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; and Spirit of Women Award 1998-99 given by the National Consortium of Health and Hospitals.

Dr. Estés founded and directs La Sociedad de Guadalupe, a human rights educational organization that broadcasts, via audio, throughout the world and has a special interest in adult literacy.