About The Editor

Andrea N. Richesin began work on The May Queen on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, and has been talking to women about this daunting milestone for almost five years. She has worked for Thomson Publishing in London, the technology business magazine, Red Herring, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation's magazine Edutopia. She has also been a tutor with the Marin Literacy Program for the past four years.

A native of Maryville, Tennessee, Andrea lives with her husband and daughter in the San Francisco Bay Area. When she's not chasing her daughter around the house, she's digging up family secrets for her version of the great American novel.