C.W. Lockhart is a traveling collegiate professor at the University of Maryland University College. Following two decades of military service in the US Army and Coast Guard, she now pursues lifelong passions for education and travel. An award-winning professor, Lockhart has taught writing, literature, art history, management, and organizational leadership courses in the United States, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Japan. She works and wanders the world with Jasper, her globetrotting Labrador. Lockhart makes her permanent home in Seabeck, Washington.