She traveled across the United States on book tour with Dharma Girl, living for a brief period in Portland, Oregon, and then in New York City. One of her professors presented it to several editors for review, and Seal Press picked it up as Cain's first published work. Her master's thesis at the University of Iowa became Dharma Girl, a memoir about Cain's early childhood on the hippie commune. While at Iowa, she wrote a weekly column for The Daily Iowan. After graduating in 1994, she attended the graduate school of journalism at the University of Iowa. She spent the school year in Bellingham with her mother and the summers in Florida with her father and stepmother and stepbrother.Ĭain left Bellingham after high school to study political science at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote for the New University newspaper and became the opinion editor.
In 1978, she moved with her mother to Bellingham, Washington, where she attended Lowell Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, and Sehome High School. Her father dodged the Vietnam draft and her parents lived "underground" for several years. Cain spent her early childhood on a hippie commune outside of Iowa City. University of California at Irvine University of IowaĬhelsea Snow Cain (born 1972) is an American writer of novels and columns.Ĭain was born February 5, 1972, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Mary Cain and Larry Schmidt.
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