Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Sun In Days, Once, and Halflife. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and more. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and two Pushcart Prizes, she resides in New Haven, where she teaches at Yale University and is the editor of The Yale Review.