Linda Morganstein is an award-winning, overeducated writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, who also happens to be the product of a Borscht Belt childhood in the Jewish hotels of the Catskills. In the 1970s, she dropped out of Vassar College and drove a VW van to California, where she lived in Sonoma County for many years. Later, she studied creative writing with Jane Smiley in Iowa. She currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
