Storyteller. Bookworm. Lifelong Learner. Farmboy at Heart.
Every journey has a beginning.
With deep roots in his native Midwest, Cary grew up in a small Illinois farm town that still inspires his prose.
Eager to travel and understand the world, Cary earned a B.A. in Chinese and Russian Studies and completed graduate work in Russian and Eastern European history at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
As Cary prepared for a career in the U.S. Foreign Service, the fall of communism in 1989 — which made 70% of his undergrad degree irrelevant — redirected him to his two loves: literature and teaching.
At home in New England.
In 1997, Cary joined the faculty at a private boarding school in New Hampshire, where he serves as a college counselor and teaches 10th and 11th grade students part-time.
In 2006, Cary earned an M.A. in English Literature from Middlebury College, with a concentration in early 20th-century British literature while studying for three terms at Oxford University's Lincoln College. His graduate coursework focused on Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, and William Faulkner — authors who still influence his writing today.