Elana Michelson is a New York City girl who has encamped to the Hudson Valley, where she writes, reads, gardens, and volunteers with local social justice organizations. After thirty-five years as a professor, she has put down a beloved career of academic writing (and student papers) in favor of writing murder mysteries. She earned a PhD in English from Columbia University, but gets her knowledge of the life and times of Part of the Solution by, well, having been there.