Michele Filgate is the editor of What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, a critically acclaimed anthology published by Simon & Schuster. She earned her MFA in fiction from New York University, where she was the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Longreads, Joyland, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, and many other publications. She teaches at The New School, Columbia University, and The Shipman Agency.