Eliz­a­beth L. Sil­ver is the author of the nov­el, The Major­i­ty, as well as the mem­oir, The Tinc­ture of Time: A Mem­oir of (Med­ical) Uncer­tain­ty (Pen­guin Press), and the nov­el, The Exe­cu­tion of Noa P. Sin­gle­ton (Crown). Her work has been called ​“fan­tas­tic” by The Wash­ing­ton Post, ​“mas­ter­ful” by The Wall Street Jour­nal, ​“impor­tant” by The Los Ange­les Times, has been pub­lished in sev­en lan­guages, and optioned for film. A grad­u­ate of The Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, Tem­ple Uni­ver­si­ty Beasley School of Law, and The Uni­ver­si­ty of East Anglia’s Cre­ative Writ­ing MFA, Eliz­a­beth has writ­ten for The Wash­ing­ton Post, The Guardian, New York Mag­a­zine, Harper’s Bazaar, Ms. Mag­a­zine, Los Ange­les Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and oth­ers, and cur­rent­ly teach­es cre­ative writ­ing with the UCLA Writ­ers Pro­gram. She is the founder and direc­tor of Onward Lit­er­ary and lives in Los Ange­les with her family.