In 1998, Marya Hornbacher published her first book, WASTED: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, to international renown. This book earned Hornbacher a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and over the years has become a classic. Her first novel, THE CENTER OF WINTER, was published in 2005 to international acclaim. The New York Times named the book an Editor’s Choice, and Booklist called Hornbacher  “a master storyteller.” Her third book, MADNESS: A Bipolar Life, was an immediate New York Times Bestseller, and earned her more praise in the Times, which wrote, “Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer.” Her fourth and fifth books, SANE and WAITING, both published by Hazelden, have found passionate audiences who are working toward recovery from addictions of all kinds. WAITING, published in 2011, examines the role of spirituality in a non-believer’s life, and was a finalist for both the Books for Better Life Award and the Minnesota Book Award. The recipient of a host of awards and fellowships for her writing and research, Hornbacher’s essays, lectures, and articles explore subjects ranging from jazz and theater to social ethics and spirituality, and her teaching has spanned subjects as far-reaching as documentary filmmaking, nonfiction research, and poetic form.  Her writing across genres appears regularly in literary and journalistic publications around the world. Born in San Francisco, Hornbacher has recently moved to Philadelphia to join the graduate and undergraduate faculty at Rowan University. She is currently at work on her sixth and seventh books. Forthcoming in 2018, the first of these is a work of long-form journalism that tackles the science of mental illnes and new approaches to mental health recovery; the second, forthcoming in 2019, is a collection of essays on women’s lives.