Joan Albarella, Professor Emeritus for the University of Buffalo EOC is the author of the four-novel Niki Barnes Mystery Series and the humorous sci-fi mystery, SISTER AMNESIA. She has written five books of poetry and scripted seven plays, including the one-woman religious biography series: Mother Cabrini's Mission to America; Light and Dark: The Life of Sister Judith Fenyvesi, SSS; Always In My Heart: The Life of Saint Marianne Cope, and This Little Light of Mine: The Story of Sister Karen Klimczak, SSJ. She has over one hundred individual poetry, article, short story, and educational publications in magazines, anthologies, and journals and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America; Poets and Writers, Inc.; The Dramatists Guild; and the Italian American Writers Association. She is listed in over twenty-two American and British Who's Who collections including Contemporary Authors and Who's Who of American Women.