Anne McClardANNE PAGE MCCLARD is an anthropologist who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. Throughouther life she has lived all over the mainland United States. She has wide ranging interests. In addition to writing, she enjoys playing bluegrass music nd writing songs.She spent most of her adult life working in the technology industry as a design ethnographer, and in that capacity did research throughout the world. Butterfly Dreams is inspired by research she did in the Azores for her doctoral dissertation. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, daughter, mother, and two dogs. Read More Read Less