Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis is the author, most recently, of the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide. Other books include the poetry collection, The Selfless Bliss of the Body, the craft book Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, and the novels My Life with the Lincolns, Delta Girls, Self Storage, and The Book of Dead Birds, which won the Bellwether Prize of Fiction of Social Engagement. She teaches at Sierra Nevada College and Antioch University Los Angeles.