Gretchen Cherington

Gretchen Cherington came to writing later in life, after a forty year career advising CEOS and executives. Her memoir, Poetic License, profiles her complex relationship with her father, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and Maine summer resident, Richard Eberhart, and garnered first runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Award and the Foreword INDIES Award. Her second book, The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy--A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry arrives in June. Kirkus calls it “a dazzling account that deftly combines crime, drama, history, and introspective remembrance…a mesmerizing story, one filled with drama and suspense and told with remarkable emotional insights.” Cherington’s essays have appeared in Huffington Post, Electric Lit, Quartz, Hippocampus, Yankee, and more. Her essay “Maine Roustabout” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Gretchen splits her time between Portland, ME and a saltwater cottage on Penobscot Bay. She is working on her first novel.