Leah Hammond Dallaire, 37, was educated through the B.A. journalism/English program at the University of Rhode Island and completed her two years post-graduate in emergency medical services at SPCI in Massachusetts. She has worked as a news reporter for several newspapers and has been a paramedic serving the citizens of Pinellas County since 1999. She has just finished an additional Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature, and is currently in pursuit of her Masters degree.
Also on staff here at 911editing is a very savvy research guy who is absolutely addicted to detail, and an HR guru with the supernatural ability to make your resume and cover letter sing.
What's on Leah's bookshelf right now:
Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
Quietus by William Van Poyck
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Island by Carl Hiassen
From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell (thank you Tsambika!!)
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
Never Let Them See You Cry by Edna Buchanan
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's writing room, Key West, FL