Megan Staffel is the award-winning author of six books of fiction, the novels, The Causative Factor, The Notebook of Lost Things, She Wanted Something Else, and three collections of stories, most recently The Exit Coach and Lessons in Another Language. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College and keeps a blog, What I'm Reading, on her website. She lives in Brooklyn and a small town in western New York State.