National Book Critics Circle board member and longtime All Things Considered commentator Marion Winik is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Highs in the Low Fifties and many other books. She is a professor in the University of Baltimore MFA program in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts, writes a monthly column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com, and reviews books for People, Newsday, Kirkus Review, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others. She can be found on Twitter @marionwinik