Edan Lepucki is the author of the novella "If You’re Not Yet Like Me," originally published by Flatmancrooked and recently re-released by Nouvella Press. The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014.

Her debut novel, "California," will be published by Little, Brown on July 8, 2014. "California" is a fall 2014 selection of Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program.

Edan is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her short fiction has been published in Narrative Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Meridian, FiveChapter, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is a staff writer for The Millions and teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and for Writing Workshops Los Angeles, which she founded.

In 2009 she won the James D. Phelan Award and in March of 2011, she won second place in the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize for her essay, “Reading and Race: On Slavery in Fiction.”

She likes books, dancing, and filling out forms.