Kate Moses is the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath and the memoir Cakewalk, and coeditor of two bestselling anthologies on motherhood, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves, inspired by Salon’s pioneering daily feature Mothers Who Think, of which Moses was a founding editor. Recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, a Prix des Lectrices de Elle, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony, Moses lives in Essex, New York.