Lindsey Crittenden is the author of The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray and The View From Below, a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley and the creative writing program at UC Davis. Her personal essays and articles have appeared in Real Simple, Bon Appétit, Health, and Best American Spiritual Writing. Her fiction has won the Writers@Work Fellowship, the Mid-List Press First Series Award, and the River City Writing Award. She has been a writing fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Ragdale Foundation. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she teaches writing and is at work on a novel and new short stories.
