Helen Fremont is the author of the national bestselling memoir After Long Silence. Her second memoir, The Escape Artist, was selected as an "Editor's Choice" by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Harvard Review. She has been a teaching fellow at both Bread Load and the Radcliffe Institute. She was a Scholar in the Women's Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University, and worked as a public defender in Boston, where she now lives with her wife.