Amy Clary has been awarded a phD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She received her B.A. in English from Bates College in Lewiston and attended graduate school at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. She also participated in the Wesleyan Program in Paris, France. Dr. Clary is a published writer and book reviewer. She has presented her works both in the U.S. and abroad and her work has appeared in the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, Works and Days, Interdisciplinary Humanities and is forthcoming in Frontieres from Les Presses de l’Universite de Paris – Sorbonne. She is employed by the Denali Foundation in Denali, Alaska and is the daughter of the late Michael Clary and Karen Clary-Devine of Farmington.