A mindfulness meditation practitioner since 1996, Ellen-Marie Silverman has found mindfulness useful in resolving her long-standing stuttering problem. A speech pathologist, she described her experience in the book, Mindfulness & Stuttering, published in 2012. In 2016, winning,” a young adult novel, the second in The Jason Trilogy she is writing, was published. The series portrays the effect of a stuttering problem on one person’s life from age 10 to age 50. Ellen-Marie Silverman, a poet, lives in the United States near the Lake Michigan shore.