About the Librettist

LD VanAuken holds an MFA in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she held a fellowship as the assistant editor of The Literary Review; An International Journal of Contemporary Writing. Her short prose was recently nominated for inclusion in Best New American Writing and The Pushcart Prize. Lisa’s work has been published in many university-sponsored literary journals, including Fourth Genre, Many Mountains Moving, Fugue, Limestone, The MacGuffin, Sou’wester, The Literary Review (TLRweb), Flyway, Southeast Review, CICADA, Baltimore’s Citypaper, and many other venues. Her first two novels were published pseudonymously in 2009 by Grand Central Publishing, part of Hachette Book Group, and two more book are due from Berkley Books (part of Penguin Group). Prior to earning her MFA, she worked briefly at an NYC literary agency.