Gretchen Cherington has long observed the ways in which powerful men influence our world. Her first learning came from her  father, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate, Richard Eberhart, and his eclectic and influential writer friends, from Robert Frost to Allen Ginsberg to James Dickey. Later, as an advisor to hundreds of CEOs and top executives through her consulting career, Cherington partnered with them as they transformed their companies into places where both business and people could thrive.

 

An active leader in her community, she has served on twenty non-profit and corporate boards. As a writer, she uses complex family stories to illuminate our reverence for heroes, the ways we mythologize powerful men, and reconciling our complicated legacies.

 

Her first memoir, Poetic License, won multiple awards. Her essays have  appeared in Huffington Post, Culture Club, The Millions, Crack the Spine, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Women Writers/Women’s Books, MS. Girl, Yankee and more. Her essay “Maine Roustabout” was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Gretchen and her husband split their time between Portland Maine and a saltwater cottage on Penobscot Bay. She renews herself in wild places out of doors.