Carol McClain Bassett spent her first 18 years of life in China, India, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the daughter of missionary parents. Learning to speak Cantonese from birth, and living among several Asian cultures, Carol has a unique, cross culture worldview.

She published a monthly newsletter for her classmates a year after graduating from high school. They were scattered all over the world attending college in different nations and Carol kept them connected with her newsletter. She was an editor for her college newspaper. From then on, she has been writing.

She is published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, and has written for professional health journals, various newspapers and magazines, and for executives and marketing managers in a number of companies. Carol is also a freelance book editor. She has created e-newsletters for physicians and pain management clinics since 2010.