Coral Castles in Bloomington, MN

A poem she wrote has been translated into multiple languages, set to music, and featured in a best-selling book on spirituality and the twelve steps. But until recently, the author of "Breathing Underwater" has been virtually unknown, and the collection containing that famous poem has never been published. Richard Rohr calls it "stunning"; other writers and poets describe Carol Bialock's debut collection as "brilliant and luminous"; "lighthearted and holy"; "dynamic, immediate, ecstatic"; "a book of love and God ... bursting into bloom."