Wayne Hoff­man is a vet­er­an jour­nal­ist, pub­lished in the Wall Street Jour­nal, Wash­ing­ton Post, Hadas­sah Mag­a­zine, The For­ward, Out, The Advo­cate, and else­where; he is exec­u­tive edi­tor of the online Jew­ish mag­a­zine Tablet. He has pub­lished three nov­els, includ­ing Sweet Like Sug­ar, which won the Amer­i­can Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award. He lives in New York City and the Catskills.