Description: Born in New Jersey to Irish parents, Grace lived and worked in New York City until 2001. In September 2001, she and her late husband Miguel Peraza, a figurative painter, travelled to Italy with their two cats, Rachel and LoMein. In 2002, while still in
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Grace Brophy
Born in New Jersey to Irish parents, Grace lived and worked in New York City until 2001. In September 2001, she and her late husband Miguel Peraza, a figurative painter, travelled to Italy with their two cats, Rachel and LoMein. In 2002, while still in Italy, she began her first work of fiction, The Last Enemy, a police procedural set in Umbria, featuring Commissario Alessandro Cenni.
Grace was a systems engineer for twenty years for various telecommunication companies, including Bell Labs, AT&T, and Verizon. Before she began work as a systems engineer, she taught writing and literature at the City University of New York, at Queens and Hunter colleges. In 1982 and 1986, Grace studied tapestry design with Carlos Delclaux, in Geronia, Spain.