About Emily

Emily Wakeman Cyr is a lifelong New Englander. She studied English and Education at Quinnipiac University and the University of Connecticut. She taught reading and writing in public schools before becoming a stay-at-home mom, a role that quickly transformed to stay-at-home writer. She and her husband and three children divide their time between their home in the woods of rural Connecticut and their home away from home on Cape Cod. Pleasant Bay is her first novel.