Gretchen L. Schwenker is a writer and editor from Princeton, New Jersey, who has worked across a broad spectrum of subjects, including medicine, the arts, literature, and spirituality. The use of poetry for meditation is a particular interest. After spending some years studying in Ireland and the United Kingdom, she was granted a doctorate in English literature from the University of Stirling, Scotland. She served as a coeditor on The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Autobiographies.