Joan Silber
Joan Silber is the author of ten books of fiction, including Improvement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Secrets of Happiness was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews. Other of her works have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and The Story Prize. She lives in New York and has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Warren Wilson MFA degree program.
