Nita Sweeney is the bestselling author of five books including the award-winning memoir Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink. Her work on mindfulness, movement, and mental health has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. A mindfulness coach, certified meditation teacher, ultramarathoner, and retired attorney, Nita knows firsthand the power of showing up for yourself and for those you love even when it feels impossible. Based on her work as assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded Mind, Mood, and Movement to support well-being through meditation, movement, and writing practice and The Writer's Mind to assist writers in chasing their publication dreams. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet, not far from the golf courses where many of the events in MEMORIAL took place.