Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of two essay collections—The Empathy Exams and Make it Scream, Make it Burn—as well as a critical memoir, The Recovering, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at Columbia University. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jamison also graduated with her Ph.D. from Yale University.