Myers' academic career took her from teaching to academic administration at Bryn Mawr College as dean of the College, to Denison University as president for nine years, and to Sarah Lawrence College as president for nine years. Myers retired in 2007 to write fiction full time. Myers has published extensively in her professional life (non-fiction books that have been best-sellers in their markets, scholarly articles, essays). Her opinion editorials on education published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor have been widely circulated and brought her national attention. Her short fiction has appeared in The Reading Room, in Global City Review, and in The Commonline Journal. Her latest novel, Fugue for the Right Hand, is published by Harvard Square Editions and will come out on October 7, 2014 and will be available on Amazon Born in Morocco, Myers grew up and was educated in Paris until she moved permanently to the US in 1964. In 2007, she was named by President Chirac a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, the highest honor bestowed by the French government. Myers lives in Manhattan, Asheville, NC, and Paris. She has completed her fourth novel.