Producer/writer Gay Courter has worked continuously in film and television production since graduation from Antioch College in 1966. She is also author of five best-selling novels with over three million copies in print: The Midwife (Houghton Mifflin, 1981) was listed as the 8th best-selling book of 1982. Her fifth novel, The Midwife's Advice, was published by Penguin USA in 1992. She has a new novel, Healing Paradise ready for publication, and another novel forthcoming.

For the past 16 years Gay has served as a volunteer in the Florida Guardian Ad Litem program and still has an active case load. She has written I Speak For This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate, a non-fiction book about her work as a child advocate, published in February, 1995 and has appeared on Good Morning America, Day One, NBC Weekend Edition, and in Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, and other national publications as an expert on these issues. I Speak For This Child was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1995 Gay has received the Child Advocate of the Year award in Florida for her work as a Guardian ad Litem, the Sharon Solomon Child Advocate Award from the Florida Center for Children and Youth, and special recognition from the Florida Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television, Inc. for her work on Where's My Chance? The Case for Our Children and the Altrusa International 10 Most Admired Women of 1999 award for "Making a Difference."  She has remained an active Guardian ad Litem.

Gay's latest book, How to Surivive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis: Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club was published by Perigee/Putnam in May, 2003 and was co-written with the founder of the website, midlifewivesclub.com, Pat Gaudette. 

In December of 1999, Gay accepted a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on behalf of Courter Films and Tampa public TV station WEDU for the series of mini-documentaries titled Solutions for America's Children that were created, developed, and produced by the Courters.

Gay and her husband Phil are the proud parents of two sons, Blake and Joshua, and a daughter, Ashley, who was adopted from foster care at age 12. Blake, an engineering graduate of Princeton University, is a consultant in the design software business. Joshua, who has a degree in ethnographic film from Hampshire College, is currently a filmmaker, designer and craftsman in California. Ashley is in the honors program at Eckerd College and also gives speeches and appearances as an advocate for adoption.  Ashley and Gay are under contract to Ashley's biography. 

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