Betsy Lerner is the author of THE FOREST FOR THE TREES and FOOD AND LOATHING. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry and was the recipient of a Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was one of PEN’s Emerging Writers in 1987. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors Under 35. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.
Courtesy of Betsy Lerner's Blog.