Paula McLain

Paula McLain is the author of two poetry collections, Less of Her and Stumble, Gorgeous, as well the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses. Her debut novel, A Ticket to Ride (Harper Perennial, 2009), was named a Top Read on the Today Show. McLain received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and teaches poetry in the low-residency MFA program at New England College. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Photograph by Stephen Cutri.