Eliz­a­beth L. Sil­ver is the author of the nov­el, The Major­i­ty, as well as The Tinc­ture of Time: A Mem­oir of (Med­ical) Uncer­tain­ty (Pen­guin Press) and The Exe­cu­tion of Noa P. Sin­gle­ton (Crown). Her work has been pub­lished in sev­en lan­guages and optioned for film. Also an attor­ney, Eliz­a­beth teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at UCLA, is the founder of Onward Lit­er­ary, and lives in Los Angeles.