Emi­ly Franklin is the author of more than twen­ty nov­els and a poet­ry col­lec­tion, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her award-win­ning work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Guer­ni­ca, JAMA, and numer­ous lit­er­ary mag­a­zines as well as fea­tured and read aloud on NPR and named notable by the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries. She lives out­side of Boston with her family.