Gail Hudson's lifelong passion for organic foods and holistic living inspired her to work with Dr. Goodall on Harvest for Hope. For the past 20 years Gail has worked in the publishing industry as a freelance writer as well as a newspaper and magazine editor. Her features and personal essays about natural health, spiritual growth, and parenting have appeared in numerous publications, including Self, Utne, Natural Health, Parents, Body & Soul, and Good Housekeeping. For many years Gail was Spirituality Editor at Amazon.com, writing book reviews and interviewing authors for the website.

Her books include an anthology of personal essays for Seal Press titled I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers, published in April 2005. Gail teaches classes and workshops on personal narrative and memoir writing. She is also a writing coach for numerous book writers. She lives with her husband and two children in the Seattle area.