Gracy Olmstead
Gracy is a journalist and author.
Gracy wrote her first book in kindergarten, and has been scribbling furiously ever since. As a child and teenager, she loved to turn her math equations into “stories,” with each number serving as a character in the drama. Her favorite childhood book was The Phantom Tollbooth, a magical story in which letters are edible and an orchestra “plays” the sunrise.
Upon graduation from college, Gracy began working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., where she began writing columns on agriculture, community, art, music, books, and culture. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and National Review, and is currently writing Uprooted: a book about the Idaho farming community where she grew up.
For Gracy, sound and color, numbers and letters have all been interconnected since childhood. And so the stories she writes are often infused with color and metaphor—shaped by the synesthetic connections she experiences as she writes. Her hope is to one day write down all her “number stories” for her daughters, and for anyone else who might like to read them.