Louise Harmon is a retired law professor, with a JD, a PhD in philosophy, and two master’s degrees. She has written numerous scholarly writings and published short stories with The Legal Studies Forum, including one on the history of the Litchfield Law School. Her three published books are: Fragments on the Deathwatch, Beacon Press; Cultivating Intelligence: Law, Power, and the Politics of Teaching with Deborah Post, New York University Press; The Education of Ebenezer Wells, Book 1 of The Litchfield Chronicles, Hot Brick Books. (Three more books are forthcoming in The Litchfield Chronicles.) She has three amazing adult daughters and a kind husband. She is also a major cat lover.