Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novels You're Note You, adapted into a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Emmy Rossum, But Not For Long, and Bread and Butter, and editor of the food writing anthology Food & Booze. Wildgen's reviews, essays, and stories have appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review and Modern Love column, O, the Oprah Magazine, RealSimple.com, Salon, Best American Food Writing, Best New American Voices, Triquarterly, Story-quarterly, and elsewhere. Formerly executive editor with the award-winning literary journal Tin House, Wildgen is now a freelance editor and cofounder with novelist Susanna Daniel of Madison Writers' Studio.