Jean Hanff Korelitz is a New York native who attended Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Properties of Breath, a collection of poems, as well as A Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The Devil and Webster, and The White Rose, as well as Interference Powder, a children's story. She's also written pieces for publications like Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family), and others, as well as anthologies like Modern Love and Because I Said So. Her spouse (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at the New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children live in Princeton, NJ.