Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has written about food, travel, books, relationships, and urban life for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the London Sunday Times, the London Guardian, and others. She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project.