S.L. Wisenberg is the author of The Sweetheart Is In, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions, and The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She is a third-generation native Jewish Texan on her mother's side, and lives in Chicago, where she edits Another Chicago Magazine. She's received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has been published in the New Yorker, The Sun, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals.