Katrin Den Elzen Editor

Katrin Den Elzen, PhD, is a research associate in the School of School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia and a guest lecturer for therapeutic writing for graduate students in counselling at Murdoch University, Perth. She works as a grief counsellor and Writing-for-wellbeing facilitator. As a component of her doctorate in creative writing, Katrin has written a grief memoir entitled My Decision about her experiences as young widow. She is a special issue’s editor for two Special Issues on Living with Loss for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. She has been widely published, including in the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, The Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Life Writing, TEXT, The European Journal of Life Writing, and LIRIC.

Reinekke Lengelle, PhD, is associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University, Canada and a researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Her book "Writing the self in bereavement: A story of love, spousal loss, and resilience" was published by Routledge in 2021 and won the Qualitative Inquiry Book Award in 2022 and the "Way of Life: Best Book Award for Ethnography" in 2021. Her Dutch book on Writing the Self using poetry is called "Jezelf Schrijven" (2018). Reinekke has spent 25 years teaching "Writing the self", developed several graduate courses, and is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on this topic as it pertains to personal development, mourning, and career learning. She is also a symposium co-editor with the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.