Jane Gallagher lives with her husband in the green woodlands of Vermont's mountains, where she writes. She retired in 2016 from nonprofit development consulting to New England's nonprofit organizations working to address social and environmental injustice at local, state and regional levels. A mother of two and grandmother of three, she holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Carleton College in Minnesota and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University in Massachusetts.