Eric Maisel,Ph.D. is a San Francisco-based creativity coach and trainer of creativity coaches; he also teaches in the ITP Transformational Coaching Program. He has been working with creative and performing artists for more than twenty years and has been writing for thirty-five years. His more than thirty books include Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, A Writer's Paris, The Van Gogh Blues, The Creativity Book, Performance Anxiety, The Ten-Second Pause, and many more.

Eric has presented on creativity issues and creativity coaching at venues like the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer's Digest Writers Conference, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, the Paris Writers Workshop, and more. As a keynote speaker, he has presented the keynote address at the first-ever Arizona State University Arts & Letters Faculty Convocation, the Oklahoma Writers Federation Annual Conference, the Win-Win Writers Conference, the 25th Annual International Lettering Arts Conference, the Jack London Writers Conference, the 2005 Indiana Community Arts Conference, and more.

     "Eric Maisel has made a career out of helping artists, musicians,    dancers and writers cope with the traumas and troubles that are the price of admission to a creative life."
    — Intuition Magazine

"Eric Maisel's psychological approach sets his work apart from the many inspirational and how-to writers on the market today."
— Library Journal

"Eric Maisel has fused his empirical knowledge of the artistic life with true empathy and support for artists in each of the disciplines."
— New Age Journal

"Eric Maisel's books should be required reading for anyone involved in the arts, especially students and their teachers. Maisel demystifies the process of creating art."
— Theatre Design and Technology Journal

"Eric Maisel is a meticulous guide who knows the psychological landscape that artists inhabit."
— The Writer Magazine