Lauren Sandler is the author of three books of nonfiction, including the New York Times Notable Book This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home. The book was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize, given by Columbia School of Journalism and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which recognizes a book that has “broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form and signaling strong potential for lasting influence.”  Her previous books are the best-selling One and Only and Righteous. A former NPR producer, Sandler’s journalism, essays, and columns have appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, and New York Magazine.  She has received a Yale Poynter Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, the NYU Reporting Award, and multiple Calderwood grants. Her awarded residencies include MacDowell, Loghaven, and The James Merrill House. Sandler returns to the Dora  Maar House to work on her fourth book, American Prophecy: One Family, Two Nations, And A World on Fire, about an ideologically divided Southern family, to be published by Random House. She is also currently developing her reporting in a homeless shelter into a Broadway musical. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.