Eric Maisel, PhD, is America's foremost creativity coach and is widely known as the creativity expert. He is a columnist for Art Calendar magazine, the number one business online and print magazine for visual artists, coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches, and offers workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. He is the author of Brainstorm, The Atheist's Way, A Writer's San Francisco, Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, Ten Zen Seconds, and thirty other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.