Deborah Lott
Deborah Lott’s memoirs, essays and reportage have been published in the Rumpus, Salon, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, LA Times, StoryQuarterly, the Good Men Project, the nervous breakdown, and many other places. Her family’s legacy of hypochondria was featured on NPR’s This American Life. Her first, critically lauded book, In Session: The Bond between Women and their Therapists, offered an unprecedented look at psychotherapy from the perspective of several hundred clients Lott interviewed. Her essays have been thrice named as “notables of the year” by Best American Essays. She teaches creative writing and literature at Antioch University, Los Angeles, where she serves as faculty advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly. She lives with her husband, Gary Edelstone, in Los Angeles.
