E. M. Alexander began working at the age of six, delivering newspapers up a steep, and decidedly creepy, hill called Robert's Rd. She has worked as a student library aid, a pizza maker, a tee-shirt maker, as well as a receptionist and bill-collector. Currently, she is a freelance writer for a local community newspaper, The Reminder. One of the 2006 recipients for the Barbara Karlin Grant, E. M. Alexander resides in Connecticut with her husband, Phillip, and her son, Ethan. "Death at Deacon Pond" is her first novel.