Martha Erickson is Quiet Garden Host of Bliss-Filled Gardens and Woodland Labyrinth in the USA, as well as a keen gardener and lay minister she is a labyrinth builder. She created a labyrinth as part of a hospital healing garden which led to a fact-finding mission to Chartres in 1999 to discover more about labyrinths that led onto working the labyrinth in a women’s prison and authoring this guidebook on finger labyrinths.