Jill Quinn

Moving in Place: Jill Sisson Quinn ’97, English

The habitat in central Maryland where Jill Sisson Quinn ’97, English grew up isn’t very different from the habitat in central Wisconsin where she lives now. The birds, insects, and trees are similar; you can use the same field guides, she says. Yet when she moved to the Midwest in 2005, she had traded a place full of rivers for one full of lakes, and “it was a huge problem for me,” she says. “I would wake up in the middle of the night and I would feel like I was moving to another planet.” Is this homesickness, or an… Continue Reading Moving in Place: Jill Sisson Quinn ’97, English