Leslie Jamison has published one novel, The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize, and a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, which debuted at no. 11 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer, and she is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently completing a doctorate at Yale.