Jill Constantino is a college coach, flower farmer, and writer who lives in Middletown, Maryland. Constantino received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, then taught writing and anthropology at Harvard where she was also a dean. She was a fox researcher in the Channel Islands, a high school science teacher in rural North Carolina, a bike messenger in Seattle, and a bartender and Fulbright Scholar in the Galápagos Islands.
Always seeking adventure, Constantino and her husband moved to a farm in Maryland where they raise their four kids, a dog, and some chickens. When she's not writing, chasing raccoons and hawks from her chickens, or selling iris rhizomes to the greater DC area, she teaches college application and essay writing workshops from her barn. She coaches students into their favorite schools across the country while mentoring parents into contentment.