Gail Lehrman is an expatriate New Yorker relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Although she deserted the canyons of Manhattan for the mountains of Oregon, she never lost her fascination for her native city and its melting pot history. When life finally gave her time and space to focus on her writing, she found that the voices of New York, past and present, still sang in her ear. Those voices were the force behind her debut novel, Across Seward Park. She is currently at work on a second novel, based on the lives of Pauline Newman, Rose Schneiderman and Mary Dreier, three Progressive women who helped shape the labor movement in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Gail holds a B.A. and M.A in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Now an avid hiker on the slopes of Mount Hood as well as a frequent flyer back East, she’s an enthusiastic participant in the rich literary community of Portland, Oregon.