Belle Brett

Belle Brett is a graduate of Grub Street’s intensive Novel Incubator program. After a career in education as a teacher, career counselor, and evaluator of educational programs, she is now an artist and a writer, contributing to her own and others’ blogs and writing fiction that deals with coming of age across the life span. She holds a doctorate of education in human development and psychology from Harvard University. A lifelong traveler, in her twenties Belle served as a bar hostess in a working-class Tokyo suburb after a six-month trip across Asia. Gina in the Floating World is her first novel and was inspired by her experiences. (See her posts on "How I Became a Bar Hostess in Japan, Part I and II" in her blog at the website listed below.)

Learn more about Belle on her website: www.bellebrett.com. Connect with her on Instagram.