Lev Grossman is the author of five novels including the award-winning Magicians trilogy, which has been published in 30 countries and reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. A TV show based on the novels is in its fifth season on Syfy. Grossman spent fifteen years as the book critic and lead technology writer for Time magazine and has written essays and criticism for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, Slate, Wired, The Believer and Vanity Fair among many others. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and three children. He first attended the Community of Writers in 1994. www.levgrossman.com