Nomi Eve is the author of The Fam­i­ly Orchard, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selec­tion and was nom­i­nat­ed for a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. She has an M.F.A. in fic­tion writ­ing from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty and has worked as a free­lance book review­er for The Vil­lage Voice and New York News­day. Her sto­ries have appeared in Glim­mer Train Sto­ries, The Voice Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment, Con­junc­tions, and The Inter­na­tion­al Quar­ter­ly. She lives in Philadel­phia with her family.