Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (THE VANISHERS, THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT, THE EFFECT OF LIVING BACKWARDS and THE MINERAL PALACE) and a memoir (DIRECTIONS TO MYSELF). She's also the co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller WOMEN IN CLOTHES. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s and The Best American Short Stories, among other places. She’s a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, where she teaches at Columbia University. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine.

Books by Heidi Julavits

The Uses of Enchantment

by Heidi Julavits - Fiction

The Mineral Palace

by Heidi Julavits

Set in Depression-era Colorado, this stunning debut follows Bena Jonssen-a woman struggling with her role as a wife and mother-as she is drawn to the seamier side of Pueblo. Here she encounters a pregnant prostitute and the question of the unborn baby's paternity leads Bena to uncover not only the sexual corruption on which an entire town is founded, but also the lies that enclose her own marriage.