Whitney Robinson was born and home-schooled in a small Massachusetts town and spent much of her childhood running wild in the woods behind her family’s home. She later attended college at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. During her first semester she experienced a severe psychotic episode and was hospitalized repeatedly over the next two years. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia but found little relief in the standard pharmacological treatments that were offered and sometimes imposed on her. Against the prevailing belief that psychosis can only be treated with medication, Whitney decided to seek a drug-free path to recovery. This, too, provided no easy cure as Whitney sought answers from sources as diverse as Peruvian shamans, New-Age healers, and the Orthodox church of her childhood. Writing had always been one of the few activities that offered a temporary peace in her most difficult times, and she decided to write a book about her experience. Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery, will be published by Process Media in Fall 2011. Whitney is currently applying to graduate school and working on several novels. She spends much of her free time with her Appaloosa horse, Thor.