Lorraine Mangione is a professor emeritus of psychology at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire, where she has taught doctoral students in the Department of Clinical Psychology for three decades. She has a strong interest in loss and grief, spirituality in psychology, creativity and meaning-making, as well as women's experiences and life transitions. She has published on Italian American daughters and dads, Bruce Springsteen's women fans, and religion and spirituality in psychotherapy practice.