LORI HOWELL THOMPSON is an award-winning artist, author, and poet. One of her favorite locations that stimulates her creativity is in the gazebo on the Asilomar Coastal Trail in Pacific Grove, CA. The Central Coast beauty, enchantment, and serenity inspires her writing and artwork. Lori feels poetry is the voice of feelings that are captured deep into one's soul. Her book "The Journey of Poetry" is her voice. She believes writing and painting together is an amazing relationship that creates a bliss of wonder. Lori Thompson lives in the beautiful Monterey Peninsula with her husband and their sweet dog, Roxy.