Caryl Johnston
Editorial Assistant to the Chairman of the Surgery Department, University of Alabama, Birmingham. Her articles, book reviews, and features have appeared in Towards, The Journal for Anthroposophy, The University Bookman, The St. Croix Review, Birmingham Weekly, and miscellaneous other publications. She is the author as well of three books, Instead of Eyes, 1979. Poems on Biblical themes, published by the author at Hawthorne Press, Lenox, Massachusetts; The Thoroughbred Colt: Identity and Moral Will in a Southern Family, 1999; and Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge, forthcoming from Floris Books, Edinburgh, in the spring of 2000.  She has been reading Barfield since the early 1970s, when she discovered Poetic Diction in a bookstore in Virginia.