Luna McNamara

About Luna McNamara

She holds a master’s degree from Harvard University studying gender and women in world religions; she’s also studied ancient Greek language and philosophy. Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for Ducklings” was the very first book that she remembers reading. It is a classic story of ducks in Boston and is a charming picture book. The book that made her want to become a writer was possibly “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. She was so intrigued by London’s varied and rich life shone through in his work, and how he wrote from perspectives that were very different than the one he inhabited. Luna could not stop thinking about Eros and Psyche. She loved the myth when she first heard it when she was just a child, however when she read the source text many years later, what she saw there was incredi