Essie Chambers

'Swift River' is a tender and irreverently funny debut novel about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. Essie Chambers was a former film and television executive, and she was a producer on the documentary 'Descendant', which was released by the Obamas Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022. #diversity.