Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of the novels Sleep Toward Heaven, How to be Lost, Forgive Me, Close Your Eyes, The Same Sky, and the short story collection Love Stories in this Town. Her work has been optioned for film and television and published in fifteen countries. Her newest novel, The Nearness of You, was published by Ballantine in early 2017. She attended the Community of Writers in 1992. www.amandaward.com