Meet Alex Cain, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on her historical fiction novel, The Body in the Greenhouse.
The Body in the Greenhouse, a mystery set at Harvard in 1948, explores closed societies and the social codes required to succeed within them.
“My interest is in exploring unspoken rules that govern how individuals are expected to ‘play the game’ in order to be successful within exclusive societies.”
An exciting update from Alex: “I am interested in observing the ripple effect of unspoken expectation among various subcultures in routine social interactions. Most recently, I’ve become a member of LitRI to broaden my writing community.”
Alexandra (Alex) Cain earned her B.A from Boston University in English Literature and MBA from Cornell University, where she was a Roy H. Park leadership fellow. Alex spent much of her career in marketing and brand management and is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Rhode Island. She draws on her past experience to explore the unspoken social codes that predicate achievement. She has attended writing classes at Sackett Street in New York and is a member of LitRI’s novel writing group.