Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novels California, Woman No. 17, and Time’s Mouth. She is also the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, McSweeney’s, and Esquire Magazine, among other publications, and she lives in Los Angeles with her family. Her new novel is Time’s Mouth.