Nancy Pinard is a 2005 graduate of the Queens UniversityMFAprogram. In addition to
writing daily, she taught fiction writing for seven years atSinclairCommunity Collegeand offers writing workshops at theUniversityofDayton’s Osher Lifelong learning Institute where her students have established a long-lived writing group and founded their own small
press. She is a popular large and small group writing craft instructor with six return engagements at the Mad Anthony Writers’ Conference and has twice taught an afternoon craft seminar at the
Antioch Writers’ Workshop where, she served on the Board of Directors. On her blog, she muses on what she learns about the craft of fiction from her reading as well as describing international
adventures doing novel research.