Kate Hennessy is a writer, photographer and wanderer who has spent years on the road where she has been drawn again and again to the sacred sites of the world ranging from the Potala and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, to the Tomb of Mary in Turkey and Tikal in Guatemala. She has observed and participated in such ceremonies as the khora, the daily circumambulation of the Tibetan Buddhists, and Semana Santa, or Holy Week, in Antigua Guatemala. In the drive to understand her restlessness, she has done a variety of foolhardy things such as hitchhike through the heart of the Congo and walk 740 kilometers on el Camino de Santiago in Spain, until she finally began to understand something of sacred landscape and her role as a pilgrim. This, of course, remains an ongoing project.

Kate has worked in a variety of roles including camp counselor in the former Soviet Union, English teacher in a Guatemalan high school, computer skills teacher to Tibetan Buddhists nuns in India, as well as having lived and worked in New York City as a legal secretary, copy editor and a business, educational and travel writer. She has been published in Doubletake Magazine and the Catholic Worker, and was included in an anthology of The Best American Travel Essays 2002 published by Houghton-Mifflin. She is currently working on several projects—a novel influenced by Irish mythology, a documentary film on the enduring power of the Divine Feminine, and Slow Flying Stone, a memoir of her travels through depression while wandering the world.

With her husband, Garry Jones, Kate currently divides her time between Vermont, where she was born and raised and where her roots remain, and Ireland, where, fed by the thick Connemara air, her heart flourishes.

Read Kates Article: Connemara: Land of Druids and Hermit Saints