Gwendolen Gross is the author of When She Was Gone, The Orphan Sister, The Other Mother, Getting Out, and Field Guide.

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Ann Hite, award-winning author of Ghost on Black Mountain, calls When She Was Gone: “A perfect balance of darkness and intricate struggles. Mix in a nail-biting plot and you have one outstanding read.”

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Gwendolen graduated from Oberlin College, received an MFA in fiction and poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and was selected for the PEN West Emerging Writers Fellowship.

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In addition to her novels, she has published poems and stories in dozens of literary magazines, as well as essays in collections including It's A Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons and It's A Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters.