Ayelet Waldman

Author

Ayelet Waldman is the author of _A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life_, the novels _Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love__ and Other Impossible Pursuits_, and _Daughter's Keeper_, as well as of the essay collection _Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace_ and the _Mommy-Track Mystery_ series. She is the editor of _Inside This Place_, _Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons_ and of the forthcoming _Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation_. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children.