About The Authors

     Adina is a sixth generation Californian and after having lived in varying parts of the US and abroad in Florence, Italy, she has come home to roost. splitting her time between the Central Coast and the Foothills of Yosemite. She holds her Bachelors of Arts from UCLA (Language & Linguistics), her Master of Arts from Middlebury College School Abroad / Universita’ di Firenze (Language & Literature) & studied in the MDiv program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Over the years, she founded several successful local businesses and worked as an interfaith hospital & hospice chaplain.  She is a working writer and poet and is currently in process of publishing her book “Spilling Ink – Write Your Way Into Healing”. Additionally ,she has designed an interactive transformative workshop  by the same name that uses writing as a tool for healing from trauma, especially abuse and grief. She is also co-author of several compilations of poetry with her husband, John LeCompte, also a writer.

John LeCompte was raised in Seattle, Washington in public schools before attending and pitching for Stanford University in California.  On graduating, John entered a career in agribusiness in California's Central Valley.  During that career John attended the Harvard Business School, selected for a program designed for young executives. John's career took an abrupt turn in the late 1980's when he began a successful career owning and operating minor league professional baseball teams on the West Coast. He has two sons and two daughters. Having lost one of his daughters, Aimee, and his wife, Thalia, both to intense health struggles, John's writing career took form as a combination of grief therapy and a newfound love of creative writing & poetry. It was during his memoir & creative non-fiction writing, John began a rich writing collaboration and friendship with his now wife, Adina LeCompte, also a writer.