Jan Brogan is a novelist, essayist and journalist who worked for many years as a staff newspaper reporter before going freelance. She is a winner of the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished financial writing, and currently works as a correspondent for the Boston Globe. Her freelance work has appeared in Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Ladies Home Journal and Forbes Magazine and one of her essays was recently featured in the collection about the insanity of the college admissions process: "I'm Going to College Not You" by Jennifer Delahunty. She and her husband live outside of Boston and get to spend a lot of time on Martha's Vineyard She is currently working on a historical novel partially set in Edgartown.