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Series Editor

Heidi Pitlor

Heidi Pitlor was raised in Concord, Massachusetts. She received her BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College.

She is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Company, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays, published in 2006 by W. W. Norton. She lives outside Boston with her husband, daughter, and son.