Anne Whitney Pierce is a lifelong Cantabrigian and the award-winning author of Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women, Rain Line, Down to the River, and There but for Grace. " Demonstrating a keen ear for unpretentious voices, Pierce ... spins richly populated yarns of divorce, abandonment, birth, and love." -- New York Times Book Review. The mother of three grown daughters, she taught writing to graduate students at Emerson College and to students in the Cambridge Public Schools.