Nina de Gramont is the author of the story collection Of Cats and Men, which was a Book Sense selection and won a Discovery Award from the New England Booksellers Association. Her first novel, Gossip of the Starlings, was also a Book Sense pick. She is the co-editor of an anthology called Choice, and the author of a novel for teens, Every Little Thing in the World. Nina’s work has appeared in Redbook, Harvard Review, Nerve, post road, and Seventeen. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter.