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 Elaine R. Sampson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on
March 10, 1956. Her first name was chosen by her mother, from the
poem entitled “Lancelot and Elaine” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
She grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Watertown,
Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. From a young age she was deeply
influenced by her mother, “Sate,” who led a life of love, kindness and
compassion. Elaine was also inquisitive about spiritual things from her
youth, which led her upon numerous quests, as she sought answers to
the deeper questions she had about life.
After high school, she went on to receive a B.A. degree in psychology
from Merrimack College. She is also a licensed social worker at the
LSW level in the state of Massachusetts, and worked for 19 years in the
fields of home care, hospital and nursing home social work and
discharge planning.
Elaine has been living with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome
since 1991, and with interstitial cystitis since 1997. In 2001 she was
diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the left breast, which
was locally advanced. She has undergone two breast cancer surgeries,
radiation treatment and is currently living with metastatic disease.
She has been married to her husband, Tom, since 1988. After having
lived in Vermont, New Mexico and Minnesota, they now reside in New
England with their cats. Grace for the Journey is the author’s first book.
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