DEBORAH SOSIN (Nonfiction, January 2015) is a writer, editor, psychotherapist, and GrubStreet instructor. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, Cognoscenti, Brevity Blog, and elsewhere. Her craft essay on the self as antihero in creative nonfiction appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle. She is the author of the forthcoming Sober Starting Today Workbook: Powerful Mindfulness & CBT Tools to Help You Break Free from Addiction (March 2024, New Harbinger Publications). Her picture book, Charlotte and the Quiet Place, illustrated by Sara Woolley (Parallax Press, 2015), won the Gold INDIEFAB and Silver IPPY awards, among several honors. In addition to her Lesley MFA, she holds an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. Since 2009, Debbie has led “Write It Like It Is” freewriting groups. She is working on an essay collection titled Heartbeats and Other Seismic Matters.