Stone, Kathleen Courtenay: - Kathleen Stone knows something about female ambition. As a lawyer, she was a law clerk to a federal judge, a litigation partner in a law firm, and senior counsel at a financial institution. She also taught seminars on American law in six foreign countries, including as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Kathleen's work has been published in Ploughshares, Arts Fuse, Los Angeles Review of Books, Timberline Review, and The Writer's Chronicle. She holds graduate degrees from Boston University School of Law and the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Boston with her husband. Her website is https: //kathleencstone.com/.