Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of four novels, the latest of which, Wonderland, appeared in May. Her first novel, Tea, was published in 2000 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Prior to that, she had been a senior editor for the Voice Literary Supplement and then from 1995 to 1997 a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year (2004) won a Lambda Literary Award and a Best Book of the Year at the San Francisco Chronicle. The Sky Below came out in 2009. That year, she was a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, and in 2010-2011 the Sovern Columbia Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She is currently an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University.