Mindy Lewis is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir (Washington Square Press), co-author of A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientistwith Thomas Haines, and editor of DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House(Seal Press, Spring 2009). Winner of the 2015 New Letters Essay Award, her essays have been published in Newsweek, Lilith, Arts & Letters, Body & Soul, New Letters, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Santa Ana River Review, and Poets & Writers magazines. She has taught at The Writer's Voice, Hudson Valley Writers' Guild, Brooklyn College, and currently teaches privately.