Nancy Brewka-Clark

Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Nancy Brewka-Clark began her writing career at a daily newspaper chain on Boston's North Shore and went on to write short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama that have been published in the U.S. and abroad. For two decades she also painted professionally under the name of Nascha, creating unique gilt bas reliefs that combined 18th century New England colonial japanning and Ukrainian folk motifs. That work was featured in Yankee Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, People Magazine and a host of other publications. A lifetime devotee of Nathaniel Hawthorne, or more specifically his enigmatic older sister Elizabeth, she lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with her husband Tom.