Lisa Gor­nick has been hailed by NPR as ​“one of the most per­cep­tive, com­pas­sion­ate writ­ers of fic­tion in Amer­i­ca … immense­ly tal­ent­ed and brave.” She is the author of four pre­vi­ous nov­els, most recent­ly The Pea­cock Feast and Louisa Meets Bear, both pub­lished by Far­rar, Straus & Giroux. Her essays have appeared wide­ly, includ­ing in the New York Times, the Paris Review, Real Sim­ple, and the Wall Street Jour­nal. A grad­u­ate of the Yale clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gy pro­gram and the psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic train­ing pro­gram at Colum­bia, where she is on the fac­ul­ty, she was for many years a prac­tic­ing psy­chother­a­pist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst. She lives in New York City with her fam­i­ly. You can learn about Lisa and her work at lis​agor​nick​au​thor​.com.