Anne Britting Oleson is a writer and teacher who lives in the mountains of Central Maine with her family. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College, and USM's Stonecoast MFA program; she is a founding member of Simply Not Done, a women's reading, writing, and teaching collaborative. Her poetry chapbooks are
The Church of St. Materiana (Moon Pie Press, 2007),
The Beauty of It (Sheltering Pines Press, 2010), and
Counting the Days (Pink Girl Ink, forthcoming).
The Book of the Mandolin Player is her first published novel.
