Connie Matisse is a writer and consultant, and the co-founder of East Fork Pottery, a place-based ceramics manufacturing company in Asheville, North Carolina. Her longterm writing project, Me & Tolkien on the Hungry River, is a chapter by chapter conversation that accompanies Frodo and the Ring on their journey to Mordor. She is animated by her devotion to contemplative spiritual inquiry and her commitment to the spiral path of liberation of all beings. She really loves talking about Lord of the Rings.