The ocean symbolizes both a microcosm of living things and the metaphoric dream of unlimited possibilities. Gazing toward the horizon, Holly Thompson, writer and teacher, seems to find these truths reflected in that hazy line.
Growing up on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Thompson explored tide pools, wondered at both the myriad strands of seaweed floating in the waves, and the lands on the other side of the sea, investigated the feelings and sounds, specimens and wave patterns with equal curiosity.
Thompson melded these passions, studying biology for her undergraduate degree, and fiction writing in graduate school. "Biology taught me valuable observational skills and the need for accuracy and precision."