Sara Lippmann is the author of the story collections Doll Palace, re-released by 713 Books, and Jerks from Mason Jar Press. Her work has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, The Lit Hub, Best Small Fictions, Catapult, Guernica, Epiphany, Split Lip, Joyland, Wigleaf and elsewhere. She received a BA from Brown and an MFA from The New School, and has been teaching creative writing for over 20 years to people of all ages. Currently, she teaches with Jericho Writers. For many years, she co-hosted the Sunday Salon, a longstanding NYC reading series founded by Nita Noveno. Raised outside of Philadelphia, she lives with her husband and children in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, LECH, is out now from Tortoise Books.