Kathryn Kramer is the author of several novels, most recently Sweet Water, short fiction, and non-fiction articles. She’s currently completing a memoir entitled Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books, about the experience of being brought up in the Socratic tradition. Her first novel, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (1984), is set in an unspecified but Near Future land – which turns out to be New Jersey – in a state of constant War with an unknown enemy. On a volunteer basis she teaches English as a second language to migrant workers in Vermont and has an Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund grant from the college to work with a student to develop an ESL textbook for this population. Kathryn received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996