Lisa Gornick

Lisa Gornick has been hailed by NPR as “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America . . . immensely talented and brave.” In addition to Ana Turns, she is the author of four previous novels:  The Peacock Feast (FSG), Louisa Meets Bear (FSG), Tinderbox (FSG), and A Private Sorcery (Algonquin). 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.