Alexandra Rosenboom, an English teacher at the upper school, not only teaches writing but is also a writer herself. Her book, Honest as Any Treeless Place, was selected as a “remarkable finalist” by Fanny Howe for 1913 Press’s First Book contest. As its name hints, the contest is for a book in any genre by a writer who has not yet had a book published. 1913 Press was established in just 2003, but the First Book contest is already competitive. Howe noted in her email to the competitors, “It’s inane to say how many fabulous manuscripts were submitted…yet it’s true.”

Rosenboom says Howe, “just chose the Walt Whitman Award winner a few months ago, so it is pretty exciting that she liked my book as well.”