Hunter O'Hara is professor emeritus at The University of Tampa. Hunter's book,  Transcendent Teacher Learner Relationships: The Way of the Shamanic Teacher, now in its second edition, was published by one of Europe's oldest international academic houses, Brill of Rotterdam, Holland (since 1683) and translated in many languages, including Mandarin Chinese. His perspective as a writer is informed by his decades of experience as a teacher, his background as a teaching-learning philosopher and his status as a long-term trauma survivor. O'Hara's book derives from over thirty years of research and reveals the power of transcendent teachers to teach content extraordinarily well, but also to transform and heal learners in ways that last a lifetime. He has also published a range of articles in peer- reviewed academic journals, and regional, national, and international conference proceedings. He recently judged the  West Virginia Writers, Pearl S. Buck Award, "Writing for Social Change" competition.  His newest work is Loving Our Way Home: A Memoir of Transcendence . A West Virginia native,  he lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida with his husband, Larry Poulakis.