JENNIFER BELLE is the bestselling author of four novels: Going Down (Riverhead), which was named best debut novel by Entertainment Weekly and optioned for the screen 27 times; High Maintenance (Riverhead); Little Stalker: A Novel (Riverhead); and The Seven Year Bitch (Riverhead). She is also the author of Animal Stackers (Hyperion Book CH), a picture book for children illustrated by David McPhail. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Harper’s Bazaar, Ms. Magazine, BlackBook, The New York Observer, Post Road Magazine, and many anthologies.