Rachel Kadish is the author of the novels From a Sealed Room (Putnam) and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), as well as numerous short stories and essays. Her work has been read on NPR and has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches in Lesley University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and is a Visiting Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She is currently at work on a historical novel titled Kindness.