El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Activist poet, psychoanalyst, cantadora (keeper of the old stories), Dr. Estés has practiced clinically as a post-trauma specialist since 1970. She served teachers and children after the massacre at Columbine High School and the survivor families of the 9/11 tragedy. She is an Associate with the Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth, Kans. Her teaching “spirit in healing” to young doctors at a Catholic hospital coincides with board appointment at Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation, Wake Forest University Medical School. A former welfare mother, she testifies before state and federal legislatures on issues of mercy. Of Mestizo-Mexican heritage, adopted by immigrant Hungarians as an older child, Dr. Estés is a visiting diversity lecturer at universities and a Founder of La Sociedad de Guadalupe for adult literacy. As a grandmother from the Rocky Mountains and a disciple of nature, Dr. Estés holds that the largest endangered species on earth is the human soul. Learn more.

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Notable books
• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, (Ballantine 1992/ 1996)
• The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (Ballantine 1993)
• The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (Harper 1996)
• Tales of the Brothers' Grimm; 50 page introduction by Estés (BMOC/QPB special edition)
• Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell. 50 page introduction by Estés (Princeton University Press, Joseph Campbell 100th anniversary edition 2004
• "La danza delle grandi madri: The Dance of the Grand Madris" (Frassinelli, Milano, Italy) 2007

Forthcoming books
• The Dangerous Old Woman; forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf
• La Pasionaria, A Manifesto on the Creative Fire: The Collected Poetry of Clarissa Pinkola Estés; forthcoming Alfred A. Knopf
• La curandera: Healing in Two Worlds; forthcoming, Texas A & M University Press