Gordon T.Ward currently divides his professional time between writing, lecturing, and acting as the director of youth and family activities at a Presbyterian church. He has worked as a history teacher in the classroom and as a group transformation facilitator in the experiential education field where he designed and facilitated teambuilding programs for twenty-two years. Ward is currently a member of Haunted New Jersey, a premier group of paranormal investigators who have accrued over seventy-five combined years of investigation experience. A lifelong writer, Ward's works have included books, speeches, newspaper, and magazine articles, and poetry. He is the author of Life on the Shoulder: Rediscovery and Inspiration along the Lewis and Clark Trail (Lucky Press 2005) and A Bit of Earth in the Somerset Hills (The History Press 2007).