Hester Kaplan

Hester Kaplan is an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to writers Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan, she graduated from Barnard College. She has taught creative writing at the Rhode Island School of Design and is on the faculty of Lesley University's MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her work includes novels such as 'The Tell' and 'Kinship Theory', short story collections like 'The Edge of Marriage' (winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) and 'Unravished', and the memoir 'Twice Born'.