Granger studied at the college of Wooster and University of Massachusetts in Amherst, earning a BA in English at the latter. After a number of years of subsistence farming and building log cabins in the Adirondack Mountains, she obtained a Master of Science in Teaching at SUNY Plattsburgh. Somehow all that background and more has found its way into her writing. She edited and coauthored "Shared Storieds from Daughters of Alzheimer's: Writing a Path to Peace" (iUniverse, 2002, iUniverse Star 2004)and wrote the YA novel "Adirondack Gold" and its accompanying teacher's guide in 2003. In 2006 she began organizing writers' retreats, which are held on St. George Island, FL, and in Thurman, NY. In 2008 she published her second novel, "Adirondack Gold II: A Summer of Strangers." She offers programs on her books, on Alzheimer's disease, and presents living history activities for kids. 

She has been published in "Adirondack Life," "Healing Springs," "BackRoads," "Adirondack Family," and area newspapers. She will host the "Adirondack Mountain Writers' Retreat" in Thurman, NY August 20-23, 2009, and the St. George Island Writers'Retreat, November 12-16, 2009. See details at www.PersisGranger.com and feel free to email any questions you may have.

Fiction Among Friends
This web site, which can also be accessed with the URL PersisGranger.com, tells about upcoming and past writers' retreats, programs, my books (and how to order them) and Beaver Meadow Publishing, and has links to other sites that may interest writers and those who love the Adirondacks and small towns.

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council
This is a listing of artists and writers in the Lower Adirondacks.

Persis Granger Home Page
I'm currently publicizing my novels, contacting school, libraries and bookstores!

Adirondack Center for Writing.
Lots of good events for writers in the Adirondack region.