Dr. Angela Browne-Miller, (PhD, DSW, MPH, MSW, LCSW), also known as Dr. Angela(r), is author of over forty fiction and nonfiction books; is director of Metaterra(r) Literary and Metaterra(r) Publications; is the Set Editor of the Praeger International Collection on Addictions (2009, eBook 2010, kindleBook, 2012), and Set Editor of Violence and Abuse in Society (2012); is author of the Continuity of Life Series; also is Director of Metaxis(r) Institute for Personal, Social, and Systems Change (Corte Madera, California); Director of Browne and Associates Violence, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Treatment and Prevention Program (Tiburon, California); founder of Doctor Angela(r) Literary now known as Metaterra(r) Literary; has been a keynote speaker at conferences around the world on human consciousness, the mind, creativity, learning, intelligence, evolution, justice, and on addiction, violence, children and teens and families, and general behavior change. Among her books are: To Have and to Hurt: Seeing, Changing or Escaping Patterns of Abuse in Relationships (2007, eBook 2010, kindleBook 2011) and Raising Thinking Children and Teens (2009, eBook 2010, kindleBook 2011) and Rewiring Your Self to Break Addictions (2009, ebook 2010, kindlebook 2011).
Dr. Browne-Miller earned two doctorates and two master's degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, where she lectured in three departments for 14 years. She has served as a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow, a U.S. Department of Public Health Fellow, the public relations director for Californians for Drug Free Youth, the Research Education and Treatment Director for the Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program, a member of the board of directors of the Employee Assistance Society of North America, an advisor to addiction treatment programs in the United States and several other countries, and project director on four California Department of Health violence prevention projects. Doctor Angela works and walks in several worlds, has developed expertise in several professions, and in her free time, delves into the potential of the human mind and consciousness. Ultimately she considers herself many things, but most of all a thinker/writer!