Meera Lester is a freelance writer and journalist who converted to Catholicism when she was a teenager. In her home she keeps a little prayer table filled with devotional candles, rosary, and prayer books and goes to sleep each night reading a saint's biography. She feels particularly close to Our Lady and to the female saints. A painter as well, she specializes in iconography of saints and other mystics, pilgrims, and spiritual seekers.