Nellie Hermann

Nellie Hermann is a graduate of Brown University and the M.F.A. program at Columbia. Her first novel, The Cure for Grief, received national acclaim in such publications as Time Magazine, Elle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and others, and the paperback was chosen as a Target "Breakout Book" in August, 2009. Hermann's short story "Can We Let the Baby Go?" won first prize in Glimmer Train's 2008 "Family Matters" competition and was published in the Winter, 2010 issue. She teaches writing at Barnard College and is the chief writing faculty in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University Medical School.