About Carolyn J. Lewis
Carolyn Johnson Lewis is a native of Old Mission Peninsula, a tiny peninsula in northwest Michigan, only 18 miles long and 1 mile wide that grows 1/3 to 1/2 of the world’s tart cherries. Her extended family, throughout time has farmed the same farrm, successfully, since 1861. Carol moved to Minneapolis at the age of 18, and then traveled the world until she fell in love with New York City, where she married her husband, Stephen, a college professor, and had one child, Danielle, who is now in her third year at Michigan Tech University in Houghton, Michigan. And yes, that is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where the snow reaches 8 feet high.
Carol received her B.A. in creative writing from New York University in 1984, and began writing award winning stories, which have now been collected into a story collection, and are looking looking for a publisher. She received her law degree in 1988, and one month later her daughter was born. She worked as a legal editor for West Publishing on Black’s Law Encyclopedia, and in 2002, she and her husband and daughter moved back to Michigan, where she works freelance as a legal, scholarly & literary editor, and has started a new novel. She also writes, with her husband, on the newsletter for the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society. She loves walking the fields and orchards and forests of her home with her dog Sam, an ancient rescued Golden Reriever, and attending classical concerts at Northwestern Michigan College and Interlochen.
