A.M. Homes was born in Washington D.C. graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa, lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University. Her work appears in ArtForum, Granta, The Guardian, McSweeneyโs, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Electric Literature, Playboy, and Zoetrope. She works in television, most recently asย as Co-Executive Producer of Falling Water and Stephen Kingโs Mr. Mercedes, andย is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She is the ย recipient of awards including the Guggenheim, NEA, and NYFA fellowships. Her most recent novel, May We Be Forgiven, won the Womenโs Prize for Fiction, 2013, and has been optioned for film by Unanimous Entertainment.