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Kerry Eielson is an honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A. in Comparative Literature with a poetry concentration in Creative Writing). She has worked in publishing in New York and Paris, at Self, ELLE, Talk and the New York Times; has ghostwritten several books on alternative healing, and authored a book about weddings. Her creative writing projects have included a novel and two screenplays. She has also attended many writing conferences ranging from the Breadloaf WriterÂ’s Conference to the Sherman Oaks Screenwriting Conference and is currently working on a novel and a screenplay. She also loves sketching and painting.
Kerry was born in Maryland the armybrat daugther (with her older brother) of an Army Colonel surgeon and a multi-talented mom who ran a small crafts business and, later, a catering service. Kerry grew up in Germany, Colorado and Massachusetts before attending school in Wisconsin and then Paris, where she lived for three years before moving to New York and, finally, Labastide Esparbairenque.
John Fanning has an Honors Masters degree in Modern Drama from University College Dublin and an Honors degree in English and Greek and Roman Civilization from St. Patricks University, Maynooth. John has worked as a researcher/reporter for Vanity Fair magazine in New York, as well as for educational television, and is currently a fact-checker and writer for Fodor's travel guides on France. He has just completed another novel.
John was born in rural Ireland and is the eldest of five brothers and two sisters. His father worked in farming as an agricultural advisor for the Irish government. He has lived in Dublin, London, New York and France.
Kerry and John met and married in 1999 and have twin boys, born in April 2004. They founded La Muse in 2001.
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