Head’s Up: The Headmistress as Writer

By Ann Klotz

I had not thought much about being a writer when, 18 years ago, I became the head of a girls’ school. I’d been a life-long English and drama teacher and a college guidance counselor, but in those days, I did not write much for myself. Certainly, I knew how to evoke a Senior with a deft anecdote and strong verbs, and I kept a journal, but I identified more as a teacher than a writer. My students and I wrote together—big epic sagas about pioneer women and the French Revoluti...