Author

LORRAINE SHERMAN MASON was born and raised in her native Liberia; but immigrated to the United States in 1981 to pursue her college and postgraduate education.  She is a former clinical grief therapist and life coach.  With a master’s degree and experience as a clinician, she established an extensive career in working with children around issues related to grief and loss.  Most notably, as the only credentialed and licensed grief therapist tagged by Highmark Blue Shield to assist in establishing The Caring Place, central Pennsylvania’s first grief center for children; later serving as one of its directors and as a clinical social work fellow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.  

In addition to her work as a clinician, Lorraine is the executive director of the Martha M. Wright Foundation (MMWF).  MMWF advocates for, supports, and empowers tween/teen mothers in her birth place of Marshall.  The overarching goal is to help restore semblance of the interrupted childhood of girls, thus enabling them to achieve their maximum potential despite the circumstances.

At 52, Lorraine became a published author of Sassywood Man and other Folklores.  She is a freelance writer, and past contributing editor to the online magazines, US Africa and Time.  She also blogs for http://hubpages.com/ under the pen name, Penme528.