Risa Miller holds an MFA from Emerson College and is the author of two novels, Welcome to Heavenly Heights and My Before and After Life, both published by St. Martin’s Press. She is a recipient of the PEN New England “Discovery” Award and has taught fiction-writing at Grub Street, UMass Boston, and Bar Ilan University. She is currently on the fiction-writing faculty at Emerson College. (updated 3/2012)