Author Description

About the Author Keith Armstrong is a researcher, lecturer, and professor in Adult Learning and Development. He has been using the power of reflection and autobiography in doctoral/undergraduate classes, anger management and life skills coaching, and federal and private prisons. His publications demonstrate his use of autobiography in the founding/building of an institute for transitioning adults; a remote cooperative farm in Northern Ontario, Canada; a free university; and in sponsoring international travel programs. His degrees are from Loyola University-Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and Harvard University, which inspired him to seek ways to create places of peace and acceptance for adults. He studied meditation in Northern India and continued in London, Boston, San Diego, and Chicago. Keith's current work focuses on adults in transition. One of his spontaneous transitional responses (as he calls them) is taking place in Alaska at the time of this writing at Sitka Sentinel, Sitkan's Book Began in Chance Encounter, June 7, 2017. Jenny Bishman completed her master's degree in social work at Aurora University, and while working as a school social worker, she pursued her doctorate in education. She also taught university courses focusing on film iconology, in which she encouraged students to integrate personal autobiography and self-empowerment into their course analyses. For over a decade, Jenny thrives in an incredibly fulfilling social-work niche with several compassionate hospice programs. Here she reaches out to patients and families to design more meaningful end-of-life transitions by helping them tell their life stories. Importantly, Jenny also believes in the transitional potential of Emancipating Untold Truths Through Autobiography for everybody because she believes the book can help adults clear out some of the closeted skeletons that silence them and hold them hostage to old non-truths. As a result, telling our truthful story can poten