Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of the novels Leaving Brooklyn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989), Disturbances in the Field (Counterpoint, 2005), and The Writing on the Wall (Open Road Media, 2012), among others. Her collections of essays, stories, and poetry include Ruined by Reading (Beacon Press, 2001), Referred Pain (Counterpoint, 2005), and No Way Out But Through (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She has received grants from the NEA and the NY State Foundation for the Arts, and has taught at many colleges and universities here and abroad. She is presently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.