Carol Edgarian is an author, teacher, editor and publisher. Her novels include the recent New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and Rise the Euphrates, hailed by the Washington Post as "a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity, and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today." Her articles and essays have appeared in many national magazines, and she co-edited the popular collection drawn from great writers' diaries,The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame.In 2003, she co-founded the non-profit Narrative Magazine (www.NarrativeMagazine.com), the leading digital magazine for storytelling--publishing more than three hundred artists each year. The Narrative archive contains thousands of stories, poems, essays and interviews enjoyed by readers and students of all ages around the world for free. A graduate of Stanford University, Carol lives in California with her family. Follow Carol on twitter @caroledgarian, or at www.caroledgarian.com