VENDELA VIDA is the author of the acclaimed novel And Now You Can Go (Cape 2003). She is the co-editor of the Believer magazine, the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and is a founding board member and teacher at 826 Valencia, a non-profit writing lab. Vida lives with her husband and daughter in North California. Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name was published by Atlantic Books in 2007.