Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the Zibby Book Club pick The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton) and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of Publishing Studies at Hofstra University in NY.  

The Leaving Season: A Memoir, a Zibby Book Club Pick & Good Morning America  May Books Pick 
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,  a Library Journal  Best Book of the Year & ABA National Bestseller 
This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home,  a New York Times  Editors' Choice 
Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir From an Atomic Town, an Orion  Book Award nominee