Alice Mattison’s seventh novel, Conscience, appeared in 2018. The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell the Tale was published in 2016. Her earlier novels include The Book Borrower, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, and When We Argued All Night, and she is also the author of four books of stories, including In Case We’re Separated, and a collection of poems. Twelve of her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and other work has been published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review and has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories. She has held residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell, and has taught at Brooklyn College, Yale University, and, for more than twenty years, in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the M.F.A. program at Bennington College.
Portrait by Sigrid Estrada
