Mary Laura Philpott

Mary Laura Philpott is a nationally bestselling author of memoirs-in-essays, including *I Miss You When I Blink* (2019) and *Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives* (2022), which won the Southern Book Prize and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her essays, which explore the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life, have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, and she is a former bookseller and Emmy-winning co-host of Nashville Public Television's *A Word on Words*. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family.