ANNE LECLAIRE
	Anne Le Claire is a graduate of the MacDuffie School in Springfield, Massachusetts and continued her education at North Adams College, North Adams, Massachusetts and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

In 1983, pursuing a long-held dream and encouraged by the fiction editor of Yankee, Anne quit her journalism jobs and began a novel, 'Land’s End', which was published by Bantam Books in 1985. She has since written seven other novels, including the critically acclaimed 'Entering Normal' and 'Leaving Eden'. Her work has been published in many countries including Great Britain, Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Netherlands, Brazil and Israel.

In addition to novels, she is a short story writer and essayist who teaches and lectures widely on the creative process. She has taught creative writing on Cape Cod, in Ireland and Jamaica, and to women in prison.

Her essays have been included in a number of anthologies, among them I’ve Always Meant to Tell You, Letters to Our Mothers: An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers; From Daughters and Sons to Fathers: What I’ve Never Said; and A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape WomenWriters