Nancy Freund Bills

Nancy Freund Bills, MS, MSW, is the author of The Red Ribbon, A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss. Her debut memoir earned a starred review from Kirkus Review; the review concluded that The Red Ribbon is "a keeper of a book by a talented author. Bills is currently on the faculty of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine, OLLI/USM, where she facilitates the fiction writing workshop; she is also a retired clinical social worker. “The Myth,” Chapter 19 of The Red Ribbon, received first place in the memoir/personal essay category of the 83rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Her memoir, fiction, and poetry have been published in The Maine Review, The LLI Review, The Goose River Anthology, and in The 83rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Collection. A member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA), she lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with her two Maine Coon cats.