Daisy Alpert Florin attend­ed Dart­mouth Col­lege and received grad­u­ate degrees from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and Bank Street Grad­u­ate School of Edu­ca­tion. She is a recip­i­ent of the 2016 Kathryn Gur­fein Writ­ing Fel­low­ship at Sarah Lawrence Col­lege and was a 2019 – 20 fel­low in the Book­Ends nov­el revi­sion fel­low­ship, where she worked with found­ing direc­tor Susan Scarf Mer­rell. A native New York­er, Florin lives in Con­necti­cut with her fam­i­ly. My Last Inno­cent Year is her first novel.