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Gudrun Mouw
At age 49, Gudrun Mouw spent a summer in Europe doing the initial research for FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT. Originally from Germany, (she emigrated at age 7, and became a US citizen in 2...view moreAt age 49, Gudrun Mouw spent a summer in Europe doing the initial research for FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT. Originally from Germany, (she emigrated at age 7, and became a US citizen in 2001) her knowledge of German came in handy traveling in the former Czechoslovakia, the former East Germany, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Especially provoking was her visit to Dachau, the former Jewish concentration camp, now turned into a museum.
During the 12 years of writing and revising FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT, Gudrun Mouw worked as a health-educator and a yoga/meditation teacher. She wrote the novel in the vacuum created by her only child leaving for college. She also weathered a divorce while working on the novel.
After failing to find a publisher for the manuscript, Mouw put the novel on the back burner. She continued writing poetry and worked on several non-fiction manuscripts. In January 2014, Mouw began working with the publisher Raincloud Press and published WIFE OF THE HOUSE, a collection of poetry, in April 2014. Around the same time, Mouw sent her novel to her publisher, who found an editor for this unique and rich work. After yet another round of revisions, it was only after seeing the advance copies in 2015, did the reality of publication finally start to sink in for the author, at the tender age of 70.view less