Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, is an author, teacher, poet, and an award-winning translator of spiritual texts. Her dynamic work around the evolution of language and the necessity of just and inclusive language has garnered interest from various media, including the BBC and NPR’s Morning Edition. A Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year and Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Acevedo Butcher has translated mystics across time and language such as the Cloud of Unknowing's Anonymous, Brother Lawrence, and Hildegard of Bingen, among many others, offering fresh, accurate, and accessible translations for our time. Her revolutionary translation of Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence is a # 1 Amazon bestselling new release from Broadleaf Books. She currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, in the College Writing Programs. She is an Affiliate Faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation.