ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nora Gallagher is the author of two memoirs Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith and Practicing Resurrection, both published by Knopf and Vintage Books. Gallagher has just completed a novel, Changing Light, to be published by Pantheon Books in early 2007.
 
Her essays, book reviews and journalism have appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Mother Jones, and The Los Angeles Times.
 
Ms. Gallagher has received fellowships from the Wesleyan Writers Conference, Blue Mountain Center, New York, (twice); the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire(twice); and the Mesa Refuge, Pt. Reyes, California.
 
She is the editor of the award-winning Notes from the Field, published by Chronicle Books, 1999.

A sermon is collected in Sermons that Work and a poem in the anthology, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond.
 
She is represented by Philippa Brophy, president of Sterling Lord Literistic, New York.

She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, the novelist and poet, Vincent Stanley.