Maura Roosevelt holds an MFA from NYU in fiction writing and a BA from Harvard. For the past four years, she has been a full-time Lecturer in NYU’s essay writing program, and currently she’s teaching writing at USC. Her work has been published in places like The Nation Magazine and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Baby of the Family was developed from a short story with the same title, which was published in Joyland Magazine and was given an award for “Most Read Story of 2014.” Maura is also the great-granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.