After graduation from Vassar College, Alexandra Grabbe worked in journalism and broadcasting while raising three bicultural children in Paris, France. She served as assistant to authors Barbara Chase-Riboud and Marge Piercy. For two decades, she ran an eco-friendly bed-and-breakfast in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where she blogged about living green on Cape Cod. Alexandra now lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, and continues her lifelong passion as an author by publishing Seeing Joy, a home care memoir, out March 17, 2026 from Koehler Books.