Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country (Scribner) was published in September ’06 and in paperback (Harcourt) in ’07. The novel was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, an Amazon.com Top Ten Debut Fiction of 2006, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals including Allure, BookForum, the Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Salon, Tin House, the Seattle Weekly and the Stranger, and has been anthologized in The Friend Who Got Away (Doubleday), Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (Norton) and How To Spell Chanukah. (Algonquin). Her second novel, Something Red is forthcoming from Scribner in April 2010. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.