Lisa Gornick

Lisa Gornick is the author of "Louisa Meets Bear" (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015, and upcoming with Picador, July 2016), "Tinderbox" (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013, and Picador, 2014), and "A Private Sorcery" (Algonquin, 2002). Her stories and essays have appeared widely, including in Agni, Glimmer Train, the New York Times, Prairie Schooner, Real Simple,  Slate and The Sun, and have received many awards, including a distinguished story citation in the Best American Short Stories anthology and winner of the Summer Literary Seminars  Contest.