Jasmin Darznik’s debut novel, Song of a Captive Bird, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize, and awarded the Writers’ Center’s First Novel Prize. Jasmin is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and her essays have appeared in TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Lenny Letter, among others. She has been featured on NPR and The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review, Shondaland, Ms., and Vogue. Jasmin was born in Tehran, Iran, and came to America when she was five years old. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College and a PhD in English from Princeton University. Now a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.