Emily Rapp Black is the author of four books of nonfiction: Poster Child; The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller, Editor's Choice, and a finalist for the PEN USA award; Sanctuary, a New York Times Editor's Choice; and Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jentel, Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Bucknell University. She has published fiction and essays in The Sun, VOGUE, O the Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and many other publications and anthologies. She is professor of Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside, where she also teaches in the School of Medicine. She lives in Southern California with her daughter Charlie, a cat called Meatball, and a bearded dragon called Hilda.