Deborah Michel‘s second novel, The Idiot of Silicon Valley, was published by Riverhead in early 2016. Her first novel, Prosper in Love, came out in 2012. Before that, Michel worked as a magazine writer and editor for a long list of publications that includes House Beautiful, Premiere, Self, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and Buzz. She was a nightlife columnist for Avenue, and the West Coast correspondent for Spy. She has an MFA in Fiction from Bennington and attended the Community of Writers in 2005. www.deborahmichel.net