Jeanne Mackin

Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels: The Sweet By and By (St. Martin’s Press), based on the life of nineteenth century spiritualist Maggie Fox; Dreams of Empire (Kensington Books), a domestic comedy set in Napoleonic Egypt, The Queen’s War (St. Martin’s Press) a novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Courts of Love, and The Frenchwoman (St. Martin’s Press), a romance set in revolutionary France and the Pennsylvania wilderness. Writing as Anna Maclean she is author of the Louisa May Alcott mystery trilogy (NAL); the most recent is Louisa and the Crystal Gazer. She is also the author of the Cornell Book of Herbs and Edible Flowers (Cornell University publications) and co-editor of The Norton Book of Love (W.W. Norton.)She was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and her journalism has won awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, in Washington, D.C.

She teaches creative writing at Goddard College in Vermont, and has taught or conducted workshops in Pennsylvania, Hawaii and New York. She lives with her husband, artist and writer Steve Poleskie, in upstate New York.