Katerina Katsarka Whitley, a native of Thessaloniki, Greece, is an adjunct instructor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She is the author of Speaking for Ourselves: Voices of Biblical Women, Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus, and Walking the Way of Sorrows. She lives in Vilas, North Carolina.

"Katerina Whitley has given life to biblical women who have been little more than names to us all our lives. Like Dorothy Sayers, she has used the freedom of imagination to bring the tradition of our faith closer to modern people. There is no greater pleasure than seeing something familiar as if for the first time and, in seeing it so, finding it dear."—Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, author of The Sewing Room

"The author...discovered that women audience identified strongly with the experience of women characters in the New Testament. That lead to the enticing format of this popular-level book...Reflection questions at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to draw the experience into one's own life."—Diane Bergant C.S.A., The Bible Today

"A collection of dramatic monologues that tell the stories of many of the women whom we know only as mothers, daughters or wives. Part biblical interpretation and part icon, the book celebrates their heartaches and joys in a way that is intimate and moving."—Episcopal Life