About

Joan Shapiro graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1971, and with a Master of Clinical Social Work from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1988. She's worked as a psychotherapist, a community organizer, conference planner and as a disability rights advocate. She has studied several foreign languages and has taught English to Spanish speakers. She's also studied painting, songwriting, and design and styles herself as a Macrotherapist. She is now studying Japanese. She lives in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado with her dog, Cupcake.

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