About the Author

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Kris O'Shee spent four decades as a modern dancer and choreographer, including a decade in London, where she cofounded Junction Dance Company and taught at the London Contemporary Dance School. After returning to the US, she taught and performed in the San Francisco Bay Area before taking a position on the dance faculty at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She then moved to Washington, DC, to live with her husband, Alan Cheuse, and founded O’Shee Dances, through which she continued choreographing and performing. In the last two decades, O’Shee earned a certificate in massage therapy and a graduate degree in psychology. She currently has a private practice in psychotherapy in DC, where she resides. This is her first book.

About the Cheuse Center

Proceeds from Our Last Blue Moon will be going to the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University. The Cheuse Center aims to support international writers and translators and to provide young American writers with travel fellowships in order to pursue international creative projects.