Martha Rowlett has published four books on prayer. She is a native of Virginia and has lived in California and Washington for most of her adult life. She has served as a United Methodist minister in local churches and on the Conference staff of the California Nevada and California-Pacific annual conferences of the United Methodist Church. She has studied at Emory and Henry College in Virginia, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, and Claremont School of Theology in southern California. She now enjoys mountain living in Asheville, North Carolina.