Alexandra Ballard has worked as a magazine editor, middle-school English teacher, freelance writer, and cake maker (click here for some of my favorites). She holds master's from both Columbia (journalism) and Fordham (education) and spent ten years in the classroom, beginning in the Bronx and ending up in the hills of California. Today she writes full time and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. What I Lost is Alexandra's first novel.
