Joanna Hershon is the author of four novels: Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride and A Dual Inheritance. Her writing has been included in the literary anthologies Brooklyn Was Mine and Freud’s Blind Spot, short-listed for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, and has appeared in (among other places) The New York Times, One Story, Five Chapters and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.
Helen Phillips is the author of the novel-in-fables And Yet They Were Happy and the children’s adventure novel Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and her work has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their baby daughter Ruth, born in June 2012.
Anne Korkeakivi is the author of An Unexpected Guest, about which Kirkus Reviews said, in a starred review, “A beautifully modulated first novel… a knowing comedy of manners, a politically charged thriller and a genuinely moving study of the human heart.” Her short fiction has been published by The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, and Consequence magazine, among others, and in 2011 she was made a Hawthornden Fellow. Her nonfiction has appeared in many publications in the US and UK. More about her writing, etc., can be found on her website. A native New Yorker, she is married to a human rights lawyer with the UN, whose current posting is in Geneva, Switzerland. They have two daughters.
Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment and the international bestseller The Painter from Shanghai. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Self, Mademoiselle and NBC, and has worked in Hong Kong, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two daughters and an especially needy Springer Spaniel.
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