Sal­ly Koslow is the author of The Oth­er Side of Par­adise, The Wid­ow Waltz, The Late, Lament­ed Mol­ly Marx and With Friends Like These and the non­fic­tion­al Slouch­ing Toward Adult­hood. Her debut nov­el, Lit­tle Pink Slips, was inspired by her long career as the edi­tor-in-chief of icon­ic McCal­l’s Mag­a­zine. Sal­ly has writ­ten 100+ essays and arti­cles; lec­tured at the F. Scott Fitzger­ald Soci­ety in Toulouse, France, and has taught at The Writ­ing Insti­tute of Sarah Lawrence Col­lege. Peo­ple often say she’s the first per­son they’ve met from Far­go, North Dakota.