Meghan O'Rourke is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Her other books include the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye and three poetry collections: Sun in Days, named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times; Once; and Halflife, a finalist for Britain's Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has also edited two anthologies, The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery and A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Lockdown, and served as an editor at The New Yorker and as poetry editor at The Paris Review. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, a Front Page Award for Cultural Criticism, and two Pushcart Prizes, among other honors. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Best American Poetry. She is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review, which under her leadership has received two National Magazine Awards.