LOUISE DESALVO is an award-winning teacher and writer. She is currently the Jenny Hunter Endowed Professor at Hunter College where she started Hunter's MFA in Memoir program. She has published seventeen books, among them "Virginia Woolf", named one of the most important books of the 20th century by "The Women's Review of Books", and the groundbreaking "Writing as a Way of Healing". She lives in Sag Harbor, NY, and Upper Montclair, NJ with her husband.