GRETEL CLARK has a BA from Vassar College, an MA from University of Michigan, and MA/CAS from Harvard University. She has taught on four continents and raised four children while serving the Massachusetts State Department of Education for fifteen years as Bilingual Specialist for its northeast region. She led her town to create the first weekly curbside composting program east of Michigan, and has been a long time beekeeper in her home town, Hamilton, Massachusetts.