Meghan O’Rourke is the author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye, and the poetry collections Sun in Days, Once, and Halflife. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, she is the editor of The Yale Review. Her writing appears in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and her two sons.