ine Greaney is the author of two novels, Dance Lessons and The Big House, a collection of short stories, The Sheepbreeders Dance, and an instructional guide, Writer with a Day Job. Her essays and articles have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, NPR/WBUR, The Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, The Drum, New Hibernia Review, and Litro Magazine. Educated in Dublin, Ireland and Albany, New York, she has been a U.S. resident for thirty-two years and a naturalized U.S. citizen for two-and counting. Greaney lives and works in the Boston area.