Michael M. Piechowski, the author of Mellow Out, they Say. If I Only Could: Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright, brought Dabrowski’s work to the field of gifted education. He has a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, having previously obtained an M.Sc. in plant physiology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, his home town in Poland. He obtained a Ph. D. in molecular biology also from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta where he met Dr. Kazimierz Dabrowski. They worked together for eight years.  Subsequently, he taught at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin situated on Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Educational Advancement and Professor Emeritus, Northland College, where he introduced an experiential course in transpersonal psychology. He is a contributor to the Handbook of Gifted Education and the Encyclopedia of Creativity and the author of numerous papers in professional journals. His studies of self-actualizing people and moral exemplars led him to the study of emotional and spiritual giftedness. He has taught at the Honors Summer Institute at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and has lectured in New Zealand and Australia. Since 2002 he has been involved with the Yunasa summer camp for highly gifted youth, organized by the Institute for Educational Advancement. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin