about the author

Marion Winik is the author of six books of creative nonfiction—Telling, First Comes Love, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, Rules for the Unruly, Above Us Only Sky, and The Glen Rock Book of the Dead—as well as two volumes of poetry. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, Salon.com, More, Newsday, and many other venues. Her commentaries for All Things Considered are collected at npr.org. She is a professor at the University of Baltimore. For more information, go to marionwinik.com.