'Dr Alison L. Black is an arts-based and narrative researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for knowledge construction, representation and meaning-making and the power and impact of auto-ethnographic writing.' (Life writing Volume 14, 2017 - Issue 1)