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A professional and fine art photographer whose works are in museum collections all over the world, and who has published 7 books of her work, which centers on the themes of family and also escape. An artist and mother of one.

I've been a writer since the early 1980s--and I've been teaching nonfiction writing nearly as long. I've published 7 books and for 16 years I was a member of the New York Times editorial board. Married to a novelist named Alexandra Enders. No children, but two dogs: a wire-haired dachshund (Teddy) and a Border Terrier (Ceilidh). Always looking for dogsitters. We live on 53 acres of fields and woods in Columbia County, New York.

The Associate Dean for the Arts oversees Yale College Arts, including the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Undergraduate Production, Glee Club, Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Bands. Krier also serves as Special Adviser to the Schwarzman Center. She has managed a range of Yale arts programs including the World Performance Project, the Yale Baroque Opera Project, and the campus-wide Shakespeare at Yale initiative. She holds an MFA in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama. I was born in CT grew up in south Florida, and found my way back to CT for grad school and beyond. Outside of work, I love cooking/eating, gardening, and reading, and I volunteer at a cat rescue organization in North Branford.

I accepted an Assistant Professorship of Astronomy at Yale starting in July 1968 immediately after receiving my PhD in Astronomy from Caltech. I spent the next 43 years as a faculty member in the Department of Astronomy at Yale, and I retired in 2011. I had an active research career over those many years, studying topics related to the theory of star formation, with more than 100 publications. (I don't wish to provide personal information.)