Vintage

Caroline Leavitt is the author of eight novels: Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines and Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines.

Her essays and articles have appeared in Salon, Psychology Today, Cookie, New York Magazine, Parenting, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Parents, Redbook, The Boston Globe and New Woman, as well in numerous anthologies.

She won First Prize in Redbook Magazine's Young Writers Contest for her short story, "Meeting Rozzy Halfway," which grew into the novel. The recipient of a 1990 New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction for Into Thin Air, and a 2003 Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellow Finalist, she was also a National Magazine Award nominee for personal essay, and a judge for the 1990 Fiction Competition for the Writers' Voice Awards in New York City. She is an award-winning senior instructor at UCLA Extension, where she teaches "Writing The Novel" online. A former book columnist for The Boston Globe Sunday book section and for Imagine Magazine, she reviews for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and People. She recently won a 2005 honorable mention, Goldenberg Prize for Fiction by the prestigious Bellevue Literary Review, for "Breathe," a portion of Traveling Angels, her new novel in progress.

Caroline has appeared on The Today Show, Diane Rehm, and more, and has been featured on The View From The Bay.

Caroline Leavitt lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their ten-year-old son Max.