Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Certified Genealogist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She received a Certificate in Demonstrating Mediumship and an Advanced Academic Diploma from the Spiritualists’ National Union in the U.K. To her knowledge, Sharon is the only person in the U.S. to have credentials in both mediumship and genealogy.

Sharon is the author of twenty-seven books, including the biography, In Search of Maria B. Hayden: The American Medium Who Brought Spiritualism to the U.K., and her newest book, a memoir, Midlife Medium: A Genealogist’s Quest to Converse with the Dead.