Patty Dann has published  seven books, four fiction and three non-fiction.  Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Her novel, Mermaids, was made into a movie starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci.  The Butterfly Hours was chosen as One of the Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers. She has written three Modern Love columns for The New York Times.  Dann’s essays  have also appeared in  The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, O Magazine, The Oregon Quarterly, Redbook, More, Forbes Woman, Poets & Writers Magazine, and  Dirt: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House, and  This I Believe: On Motherhood.New York Magazine named Dann one of the “Great Teachers of NYC.” She earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Oregon. She has taught at the Fairfield County Writers’ Studio, Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute and the West Side YMCA in NYC. Dann is married to journalist, Michael Hill. Between them they have three sons.