Yael Gold­stein-Love is the author of The Pos­si­bil­i­ties and The Pas­sion of Tasha Darsky. She is a psy­chother­a­pist, with a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in the tran­si­tion to par­ent­hood, and the co-founder of the lit­er­ary stu­dio Plymp­ton. She lives with her son in Berke­ley, California.