Mimi Schwartz is the author of five books, most recently: Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Echoes of My Father’s German Village (March 2008). Her other books include the well-acclaimed Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006), and Thoughts from a Queen-sized Bed,  voted as one of the top nonfiction books of 2002 by JCC book clubs. Her essays have been widely anthologized and six have been Notables in Best American Essays. A professor emerita of the Writing Program of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Schwartz gives readings, talks and workshops nationwide and abroad. Read her interview in the Trenton Times.