Woodrow Lucas was born in Columbia, Maryland in 1974. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University and a Master’s in Theological Studies and a Master’s in Business Administration from Vanderbilt University. In 2001, Woodrow was diagnosed with a severe and persisent mental illness, Schizoaffective Disorder. For close to twenty years Woodrow has been utilizing his spirituality and his perspicacious intellect to mount a miraculous recovery from schizoaffective disorder that has enabled him to serve in several professional capacities, be an active member of his daughters Autumn and Gabrielle’s lives, and write and publish two other books entitled A Book of Rhythm and Insane Joy.