JAMI ATTENBERG is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books of fiction; She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, was published in 2006, followed by the novels The Kept Man and The Melting Season. Her fourth book, The Middlesteins, was published in October 2012. It appeared on The New York Times bestseller list, and was published in 10 countries. It was also a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. Her fifth book, Saint Mazie, was described by The New York Times Book Review as, “full of love and drink and dirty sex and nobility.” Her sixth book, All Grown Up, was a national bestseller, appearing on numerous year-end lists. Her most recent novel, All This Could Be Yours, for which Kirkus dubbed her “poet laureate of difficult families,” also appeared on a number of year-end lists. In 2022 she published a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, which USA Today called “a fierce memoir of personal transformation.” In 2024 she published the creativity book, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round, which was praised on the Today show, NPR, and elsewhere. In September 2024 she published a new novel, A Reason to See You Again. Her work has been published in 16 languages. She lives in New Orleans.