Wood, Robin Clifford: - Robin Clifford Wood has a BA from Yale University, an MA in English from the University of Rochester, and an MFA in creative writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. During twenty-five years as a full-time mom, she published local human-interest features in New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts and spent seven years as a regular columnist, first in Massachusetts, then for Maine's Bangor Daily News. She began teaching college writing in 2015. Her articles have appeared in Port City Life magazine, Bangor Metro, and Solstice literary magazine, which published her powerful essay "How Do You Help Your Parents Die?" in its spring 2019 issue. For more information, visit www.robincliffordwood.com. Wood lives in central Maine with her husband and dogs. The Field House is her first book.