About the Author

Lisa A. Phillips is a former radio reporter who has worked at six public radio stations in five states. She teaches

journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz and has freelanced for The New York Times, NPR,

Marketplace and other publications and radio programs. Her reporting has received four regional Edward R. Murrow

awards, a New York Festival award, and honors from The Communicator and the Associated Press. Phillips is also a

published fiction writer who has been honored with a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts fiction award, the National

Society for Arts and Letters/Pittsburgh chapter award and the Scott Turow award. She lives in Woodstock, New York

with her husband, Bill Mead, and their daughter Clara.

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