Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a novelist and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers. Her novels include: The Comet's Tale, Lost & Found, Now & Then, Picture This, The Center of the World, and The Tiger in the House. Jacqueline teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and in Guatemala and Scotland. www.jacquelinesheehan.com.