About The Author

Jan Cherubin is the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She has an MFA in fiction from Bennington, the college where she first studied writing with Bernard Malamud when she was an undergraduate. Her journalism has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles, New York, The Forward, and other publications. Cherubin also does stand-up comedy at clubs in Los Angeles. The Orphan’s Daughter is her first novel.