About the Author

Dee Montalbano's essays and memoirs have been published in The New York Times, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories for a Better World, Chicken Soup for the Beach Lover's Soul, Changes magazine, and elsewhere. A National Writing Fellow, speaker, teacher, and entrepreneur, she currently conducts MoonWriting workshops for women in the second half of life. Mother, grandmother, and a New Yorker for her first half-century, she now divides her time between Boulder, Colorado, and Lucca, Italy.