Author
Sharon Estill Taylor, Ph.D, an educator, speaker, and writer, is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Psychology, and Women’s Studies Chair, at Saint Martin’s University near Seattle.
She is the daughter of a WW II fighter pilot shot down and killed at the end of the war. She considers herself a late bloomer who aspired to be a foreign correspondent and live a life of endless adventure and travel. Some of that has actually happened with more of both predicted.
Dr. Taylor is a frequently invited presenter at professional conferences where she speaks about issues of grief and loss. A Spiegel TV documentary film, “A Love in the Time of War: the Last Flight of Lt. Estill”, depicts her search for and recovery of her father’s crash site in Germany. Her published ongoing research about father-loss in war informs much of her writing.
She is currently working on a “color coded” memoir and a textbook for Grief and Loss.
She lives Arizona when she’s not in residence in faculty housing in a campus dorm.
Speaking Engagements
August 11, 2010 Film Screening and Presentation American premier of Spiegel’s The Last Flight of Lieutenant Estill
April 6-10, 2010 Association for Death Education and Counseling, 32nd Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO
Dec 1-4, 2009 International Journal of Arts and Sciences conference keynote speaker in Gottenheim, Germany
Nov 7-10, 2009 American WW II Orphan’s Network national conference in Tucson, Arizona
Apr 15-18, 2009 Association for Death Education and Counseling Dallas, Texas
