Carol Edgarian

Carol Edgarian is an author, editor, and publisher. Her novels include Three Stages of Amazement and the best-selling Rise the Euphrates, hailed by the Washington Post as "a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity, and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today." Her articles and essays have appeared in many national magazines, and she coedited the popular collection drawn from great writers' diaries,The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame.

In 2003, Edgarian and her husband, editor and writer Tom Jenks, founded Narrative Magazine (www.NarrativeMagazine.com), the leading digital source for storytelling--publishing more than three hundred artists each year--and Narrative in the Schools, a program to encourage reading and writing in schools across America.

Edgarian lives in San Francisco with her husband and their three daughters.