Author of the award-winning memoir essay collections, The Girls of Usually and Collect Call to My Mother, Lori Horvitz’ creative nonfiction has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including The Laurel Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The New York Times, Hobart, Epiphany, South Dakota Review, Redivider, Chattahoochee Review, The Guardian, Bustle, and Hotel Amerika. Her essays have been included in two Seal Press anthologies: P.S.: What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends and Dear John, I’m in Love With Jane. She has been awarded writing fellowships from Brush Creek, Fundación Valparaiso, The Ragdale Foundation, Yaddo, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Blue Mountain Center. Professor Emeritus at UNC Asheville, Horvitz received a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Albany, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College.