Author Archives: kcooney

Lynne Griffin writes about family life. She is the author of the novels Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster, 2010) and Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press, 2009); and the nonfiction parenting title, Negotiation Generation (Penguin, 2007). Lynne teaches family studies at the graduate level, at Wheelock ... More →

Nancy Werlin grew up in Peabody, graduated from Peabody Veterans Memorial High, and received a B.A. in English from Yale. She has published eight young adult novels. The most recent are Extraordinary (Dial/Penguin, 2010) and Impossible (Dial/Penguin, 2008, a New York Times Bestseller), and ... More →

Michelle Toth divides her time between New York City and Boston, where she serves on the board of directors of the non-profit Grub Street Writers. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Harvard Business School, Michelle works as ... More →

Frederic Marshall Bauer began his creative career as an advertising copywriter in the early 1970’s. After a decade and a half performing functions ranging from television producer to creative director, he became a free-lance audio/visual screenwriter and creative consultant. From ... More →

Holly LeCraw was born in Atlanta and grew up working in her father’s beloved institution of a bookstore, Oxford Books. When not at the bookstore she could be found reading on the sofa, in bed, in the car, in public, ... More →

Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. Her father was a mathematician, and for a long time she believed her name, the Greek word for truth, was his way of tipping his cap to ... More →

Laurie Faria Stolarz grew up in Salem, MA, attended Merrimack College, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. Visit her at www.lauriestolarz.com. More →

Meg Mitchell Moore worked for several years as a journalist. Her work has been published in Yankee,Continental, Women’s Health, Advertising Age and many other business and consumer magazines. She received a B.A. from Providence College and a master’s degree in ... More →