Betsy Connor Bowen has worked as a community organizer, elementary schoolteacher, college instructor and assistant professor, securities analyst, journalist, and filmmaker. She has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature and an MBA in finance. She has written academic articles, investment reports, short stories, local history, a novella (Spring Bear, Maine Literary Award 2010), and is currently writing a biographical memoir about her father, Truth Teller and Traitor to His Class: A Daughter's Biography. She lives in Maine with her husband, a golden retriever, and a Maine coon cat, and serves on the boards of several organizations involved with filmmaking, the environment, and historic preservation.