Abigail Thomas & Pauline Uchmanowicz

ABIGAIL THOMAS is the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. Her memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also author of Safekeeping, Two Pages, Thinking About Memoir, and most recently What Come Next and How to Like It. When Thomas can’t write she paints on glass. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her four dogs.

PAULINE UCHMANOWICZ is the author of the poetry collection Starfish (Twelve Winters Press, 2016) and chapbooks Sound & Traffic and Inchworm Season.  Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Plughshares, Provincetown Arts Journal, Radcliffe Quarterly, Woodstock Times, Z Magazine, and elsewhere.  Uchmanowicz has received residency grants at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.  She is associate professor of English and director of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz.