Miriam Nesset

The author, Miriam Nesset, has been writing since the age of eighteen. She has had one of her Haiku poems published and self-published three books of Haiku poetry. In addition to Georgie Blake and the Bushie Sisters and Murder in Between, she has written another children's book, Kat the Cat and a novel entitled Sea Smoke, soon to be published. A children's historical novel and a second Georgie Blake book entitled Georgie Blake Meets Mrs. Gooseberry are in process. She is a Ragdale Fellow.

Miriam Nesset currently lives in Maine, making occasional trips to London where her daughter lives. She is originally from Wisconsin and received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in1985. Following graduation, she initiated redevelopment programs in Indiana and Virginia then worked as an urban planning consultant for several years in Florida. In 1999 she moved back to Wisconsin where she owned and operated an antiques shop for five years. In 2005 she sold her business and bought a farm house in rural Georgia. There she had space at a designer mall, sold pecans from her trees and otherwise devoted her time to writing. Answering a life-long desire to live in New England or Nova Scotia, in 2009 she moved to Maine where she continues to write, inspired by its scenic beauty and the smell of the ocean.

More information is available at www.miriamnesset.com