Gayle Brandeis is the author, most recently, of the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press), longlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, and the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis (Beacon Press). Her previous books include the poetry collection The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Finishing Line Press), the craft book Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt BYR), which was chosen as a state-wide read in Wisconsin. Her poetry, essays, and short fiction have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Rumpus, Salon, and Longreads. She served as Inlandia Literary Laureate from 2012-2014, focusing on bringing writing workshops to underserved communities, and she teaches at Sierra Nevada University and Antioch University Los Angeles.