Colleen Craig is a Stott Pilates trainer and a writer.  She received her B.A. (Creative Writing and English) from the University of British Columbia and then left Canada for over a decade.  In 1991 she returned to Canada and moved to Toronto where she continued to write fiction and plays. Expanding on a decade of dance training, in 1997 she did her full Pilates Certification with Moira Merrithew (Stott International Training and Certification Centre, Toronto). Craig is the author of Pilates on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2001), Abs on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2003), and Strength Training on the Ball (Healing Arts Press, 2005), and the producer of the Pilates on the Ball DVD. The books are widely available in various languages. In 2008, her young adult fiction book, Afrika, was published by Tundra Books.