An independent writer since 1973, Ms. Schinto was a reporter for Maine Antique Digest for more than a dozen years, from mid-2003 through mid-2017, writing about auctions, antiques shows, museum exhibitions, and trends in the trade. For the six years prior to that, she was a regular contributor to and columnist for the San Diego Reader. In 1995, Knopf published her book Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City, a memoir of the ten years she spent in the old textile-mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. In the spring of 2015, Ms. Schinto spent a month at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, as the recipient of a Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship in Creative Writing. That research was the culmination of a project that resulted in a five-part series of articles on the Walpole Society, an ultra-exclusive collector group for men founded in 1910. "Good Fellows" appeared serially in Maine Antique Digest (a.k.a., M.A.D.) from November 2015 through March 2016. The articles can be read in the "Books, Etc." section of this website. Ms. Schinto lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with her husband, horologist Bob Frishman.

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