Maureen Brady has published 3 novels, Ginger's Fire, Folly, and Give Me Your Good Ear, as well as a collection of short stories, The Question She Put to Herself and 3 books of nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at NYU, The New York Writers Workshop at the JCC of Manhattan, Il Chiostro in Italy, and The Peripatetic Writing Workshop in Guatemala. Recent stories have been published in Bellevue Literary Review and Just Like a Girl. She is currently working on a novel, Refuge, and a memoir about friendship.