Liz O’Neill grew up in central Massachusetts and vacationed with her family every summer on Cape Cod. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She currently works at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, where she supports major brands looking to make better environmental, social, and governance decisions. Her research for Ways of Virtue has included interviews with local historians; shellfish conservationists; air traffic controllers; and one remarkable, small plane pilot, who succeeded somehow in talking her off the ground. She lives outside Boston with her husband, son, and the world’s best dog, Jiggs.