Joan Silber

Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently Secrets of Happiness. Her novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her new novel, Mercy, will be out in 2025. She lives in New York and taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.