her first full-length memoir, The Possibility of Everything (Ballantine). The book covers a three-month period during early motherhood when Edelman's three-year-old daughter developed an aggressive imaginary friend and Edelman and her then husband made the unconventional choice to bring the child to Mayan healers in Belize in search of a spiritual cure. The story details Edelman's personal journey over those weeks from a “hard-core cynical intellectual” to someone open to the possibility of the unseen. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it “a charming memoir full of self-deprecating humor,” and People Magazine lauded is as “an intimate account of the struggles of parenting, partnering and faith.” Her eighth book, The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss, was released in October 2020. Kirkus Reviews" called it, “Lucid . . . Noteworthy . . . a timelessly relevant chronicle on enduring grief.” From 2020 to 2021 Edelman appeared on number television news shows to talk about Covid deaths and the aftergrief, a period she defines as starting with the most acute phase of grief starts to diminish and extending for the rest of your life. Edelman has been teaching nonfiction writing for more than twenty years, most recently as an associate faculty member at Antioch University-LA. She has also taught at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, UCLA Extension, as well as at Hedgebrook writing retreats in Whidbey Island, Washington, and Tuscany, Italy. Awards include a Pushcart Prize for Creative Nonfiction, a New York Times Notable Book designation, and a Community Educator Award from the Association for Death Educators and Counselors (ADEC). Since 2016 she has been leading retreats and workshops for motherless women, and online support groups for adults who experienced early parent loss. More information can be found at http://hopeedelman.com/ and http://motherlessdaughters.com Published works Motherless Daughters Letters from Motherless Daughters, ed. Mother of My Mother Motherless Mothers The Possibility of Everything Boys Like That I'll Show You Mine anthology co-edited with Robin Hemley The AfterGriefSelected essays "The Myth of Coparenting" in The Bitch in the House "The Three-A.M. Marriage" in Blindsided by a Diaper "The Sweetest Sex I Never Had" in Behind the Bedroom Door "Specificity and Characters" in Write Now! Nonfiction "Home Ec" in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting "You Are Here" in Goodbye to