Luleen S. Anderson was born in the small farming community of Roberta, Georgia, the eighth of nine children.  The first in her family to attend college, she earned her A.B. from Wesleyan College, her M.A. from Emory University, and her Ph.D. from Boston University.  She practiced clinical psychology for many years in Boston and Quincy, MA, and Wilmington, NC, where she now lives.

The author of three books, Sunday Came Early This Week, Fill Me Up To Empty, and Under The Covers, as well as more than eighty articles in newspapers, magazines, and  scholarly journals, Dr. Anderson is a highly regarded clinician, writer, mentor, teacher and public speaker.