Carlene Bauer is the author of the novels Girls They Write Songs About (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Frances and Bernard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), as well as the memoir Not That Kind of Girl (HarperCollins). Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Virginia Quarterly Review, n + 1, The New York Times Book Review, and Elle, among other places. She lives in Brooklyn.