A graduate of the University of Massachusetts MFA program, Don Lesser has been a professional writer, trainer, and programmer for 30-(sometimes very) odd years. He has written technical manuals and corporate training materials for the Fortune 2000, as well as cooking articles and restaurant reviews for Hampshire Life and Edible Pioneer Valley. His work received the James Peterson Scholarship and honorable mentions for the Greenbrier and Apicus scholarships at the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers. In 1990, he founded Pioneer Training to deliver computer training and programming to Western Massachusetts and beyond. He is currently at work on a novel.