Mameve Medwed is the author of seven novels—Mail, Host Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (2007 Massachusetts Book Award Honors in Fiction), Of Men and Their Mothers, and Minus Me (forthcoming in January 2021). Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in, among others, the New York Times, Gourmet, Yankee, Redbook, Playgirl, the Boston Globe, Ascent, the Missouri Review, Confrontation, the Readerville Journal, Newsday, and the Washington Post. She taught fiction writing for many years at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, was a mentor in the writing program at Lesley University, read papers for the English Department at Simmons College and took part in writing festivals across the country, serving on panels and teaching seminars. Medwed died at the age of seventy-nine on December 26, 2021.