Meghan O’Rourke is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Her other books include the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye and three poetry collections: Sun in Days, named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times; Once; and Halflife, which was a finalist for Britain’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her anthology The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness & Recovery, is coming out this October from Norton.