Patricia Harman
<p>Patricia Harman, CNM, got her start as a lay midwife on rural communes and went on to become a nurse-midwife on the faculties of Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, and West Virginia University. She is the author of two acclaimed memoirs and three novels: the bestselling <em>The Midwife of Hope River, The Reluctant Midwife </em>and <em>The Runaway Midwife</em>. She has three sons and lives near Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>