nancy's bio

Nancy Shohet West is a freelance journalist, parent of two grade-school aged children, spouse of a financial planner, occasional farmhand and active community member living in a small semi-rural town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Publications she writes for include the Boston Globe, the Carlisle Mosquito, the Concord Academy Magazine, NorthBridge Magazine and Outdoors Magazine.

She writes feature stories on a wide range of unusual people and topics of special interest, often related to children, family activities, schools, physical fitness or community life. She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and has a monthly column in her hometown newspaper called "Around Home."

Much of Nancy's recent work has focused on the project that she and her then 8-year-old son undertook two years ago to attempt to run a mile or more every day for a year. In successfully doing so, they became "streak runners" (not the same as streakers) and certified members of an eclectic group called the United States Running Streak Association. Reflections on the challenges, benefits and overall outcome of that year-long project are currently being crafted into a memoir.