Jami Attenberg is the bestselling author of eight books of fiction and two works of non-fiction. Her novel The Middlesteins was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. She is also the creator of the annual online writing accountability project #1000wordsofsummer, which inspired the USA Today bestseller 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round. Jami has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, among others. Attenberg frequently runs writing and creativity sessions at universities, literary festivals, and writing centers. Her work has been published in sixteen languages, and she lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
