An award-winning poet, essayist and educator, Sunshine O Donnell teaches experiential workshops in creative writing, visual art, and quantum physics to underserved children in poverty-stricken schools and youth residential facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Through The Coffeehouse Project, a mobile-classroom program O Donnell founded in 1994, she has published hundreds of literary magazines for underserved adolescents and abused and abandoned children. O Donnell lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia with her husband. Open Me is her first novel.