Bio

Marlene Lois Gebhart Stephen, now known as Lily G. Stephen, was born December 19, 1943 in Dayton, Ohio. Lily has lived and worked in Southern California, Oklahoma, Dallas and Houston, but says, "In 1975 I was seduced by the paradise setting of Mount Shasta, California and its mystical and spiritual influence, and soon made it my permanent home." In 1996, Lily's life found solidarity when she married Bob Stephen, a relationship that provided the refuge of true unconditional love. Since then, Lily has worked at her husband's dental practice and has established her own independent publishing company called Blooming Rose Press. Her life is a balancing act that includes the dental practice and the publishing, promotion and marketing of The Third Verse Trilogy: Vol. I, The Tenth Muse, Vol. II, The Eleventh Hour, and Vol. III, The Twelfth Age. Lily's other interests include meditation, gardening and running. Lily says her greatest hope is "...that the fiction I write and publish brings to readers fresh views threaded with wisdom, and incites their curiosity to investigate beyond the hypnotic, ceaseless activity that goes on around us."

Skills and talents

Fiction writing, editing Audio voice work Clerical skills of all kinds Past experience as photographic model Past experience copy writing for ad agencies

Interests

crossword puzzles, Gardening, Meditation practices and Tibetan Buddhist Ngondro practices, reading, Running

What I'm Reading

Padmasambhava Comes to Tibet, by Yeshe Tsogyal. Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos. Shambhala Sun Magazine. Tricycle Magazine. Buddhadharma Magazine.

What I'm Listening To

H. H. the Dalai Lama chanting the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra

Movies I've Seen Recently

Not a movie watcher.

Education

High school

San Dieguito Union H.S., Encinitas, CA -

Additional study

Ben Shaw School of Modeling in Houston, Texas