An independent writer since 1973, Ms. Schinto has been a reporter for Maine Antique Digest since 2003, 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 has 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. Ms. Schinto is now writing a book about the Walpoleans (under a contract from the University of Massachusetts Press). She lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with her husband, horologist Bob Frishman.

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