Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including Flora, Queen of the Underworld, The Good Husband, A Mother and Two Daughters, Father Melancholy’s Daughter, and Evensong; two story collections, Dream Children and Mr. Bedford and the Muses; and a nonfiction work, Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings. She is the author of The Making of a Writer, volumes one and two, edited by Rob Neufeld. She has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, the Janet Heidinger Kafka prize, the Thomas Wolfe Award, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She lives in Woodstock, New York. Visit her website at www.gailgodwin.com.