Nicole Bokat

NICOLE BOKAT has published three novels: Redeeming Eve (2000), What Matters Most (2006), and The Happiness Thief (2021). Redeeming Eve was nominated for both the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel — Will End in Fire — will be out October 2024.

Bokat is also the author of a book on novelist Margaret Drabble and has written essays for several publications, including The New York Times, Parents, and The Forward.

She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and dog, Ruby, and has two sons.