Carolyn Marie Wilkins

Carolyn is also a Reiki Master, psychic medium and an initiated priestess of Yemaya, the African Goddess of compassion, motherhood and the ocean. Her mystery novels Mojo For Murder and Melody For Murder feature the crime-fighting exploits of Bertie Bigelow, a forty-something choir director and amateur sleuth living on the South Side of Chicago. Carolyn’s nonfiction work includes They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her; Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success, and Tips For Singers: Performing, Auditioning, Rehearsing.


An accomplished jazz pianist, Carolyn is a Professor at Berklee College of Music. She has performed on TV and radio with her group SpiritJazz, toured South America as a Jazz Ambassador for the US State Department, and played for shows featuring Melba Moore, Nancy Wilson, and the Fifth Dimension.

She maintains a busy private practice in healing and mediumship, and is the host of Carolyn’s Psychic Playroom, a New Age Talk Show, on Cambridge Community Television. Carolyn’s new online class Magical Communication: How To Talk To Your Ancestors is now available on Udemy.com.