About the Author --
Alison Kirk lives with her husband and the family lab mix in Middlebury, Vermont, where she enjoys her garden, kitchen, music, books, family, and friends. Author of close to two hundred published essays and articles and numerous books "for hire," her double-edged satire, Learning and the Marketplace: A Philosophical, Cross Cultural (and Occasionally Irreverent) Guide for Business and Academe, was published by Southern Illinois University Press. She has been a teacher and administrator at several schools and colleges and is now happily retired.