Instructor Bio: Mindy Lewis

Mindy Lewis’s memoir, LIFE INSIDE (Atria 2002; Washington Square Press 2003), was named a Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing, an ELLE "Must Read," and received a starred Kirkus Review which described it as "complex, chilling, luminous."

She is also the editor of DIRT: Writers on the Quirks, Habits and Pleasures of Keeping House, forthcoming from Seal Press in Spring 2009. Her essays have been published in Newsweek, Lilith, Poets & Writers, and Body & Soul magazines. She teaches workshops in memoir and nonfiction at The Writer’s Voice, NY and at Brooklyn College.

On the Web: Mindy Lewis: Life Inside