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Nancy Chadwick is an essayist, memoirist, and fiction writer. After a decade in advertising, another decade in corporate banking, she quit and began to write full time. She is the author of Under the Birch Tree - A Memoir of Discovering Connections and Finding Home, novels The Wisdom Of The Willow and Mercy Town. Her essays have appeared in anthologies, literary and trade publications, and other outlets.

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In 2013, I logged my first blog post, here on WordPress blog. It was in name only that I referred to the space with personal essay as I was developing skills as a memoir writer that led me to publication of my first book, Under the Birch Tree, a memoir.  An author home page in support of the blog followed. From there, my writer life took off, from writing personal essay to memoir to fiction.


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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
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