found: The bear and the nightingale, 2017:CIP t.p. (Katherine Arden) data view ("Born in Austin, Texas, Katherine Arden spent her junior year of high school in Rennes, France. Following her acceptance to Middlebury College, she deferred enrollment for a year in order to live and study in Moscow. At Middlebury, she specialized in French and Russian literature. Having received her B.A., Katherine moved to Maui, Hawaii, where she worked every kind of odd job imaginable, including guiding horse tours, working as a personal tour guide for international visitors, making crepes in a stand, and doing freelance grant-writing. After a year on the island, she got a yearlong contract teaching English at a high school in Briancon, France. She spent nine months teaching, then returned to Maui. Currently, all her worldly goods reside in a box or a duffel, and she is combining her two favorite things: traveling and scribbling")
