Leslie Jamison is the author of the novel “The Gin Closet.”

The San Francisco Chronicle said that “Jamison writes like a poet, her imagery breathtaking, her sentences unfurling unpredictably, to the novel’s devastating end.”

Thisbe Nissen called Jamison “a brutal writer — an unflinching, wrenchingly gorgeous writer. Her attention to the sounds of words and the rhythms of sentences is a poet’s attention, this whole stunning novel built, filament by filament, like the most intricate, and kaleidoscopic of poems.  This novel hurts, and it hurts passionately, and so exquisitely beautifully that it’s impossible to look away.”

Vogue praised its “keenly felt” treatment of “love’s more complex geometries.” Diane von Furstenberg put it on her to-do list.

Her stories and essays have appeared in A Public Space and Tin House and on NPR. Her work has appeared in translation in the Mexican journal Hermano Cerdo and the Yellow River Journal, published out of Ningxia, China.

A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is sometimes a doctoral candidate in American literature at Yale University and other times a cookie maker at a small local bakery.

Visit her online at www.lesliejamison.com.