Eleanor Phillips Brackbill

Eleanor Phillips Brackbill has built sets with a summer stock theater crew, assisted the social worker on a VA hospital psychiatric ward, run behavior experiments on pre-schoolers, managed a team of volunteer art museum docents, and taught three-year-olds, adolescents, and college students, but none of these jobs was as satisfying as writing about history, which she has been doing since 2003.

After completing her education, Eleanor began a career in art history and museum education. She embarked on a writing career after serving as director of education at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, for twenty-five years. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has lived in southwestern Ohio, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York City and its Westchester County suburbs. She now resides near Portland, Maine, with her husband, the artist, writer, and educator Michael Torlen. Visit her online at http://eleanorphillipsbrackbill.com/.