Mimi Schwartz’s recent books include Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village (University of Nebraska Press, 2021); When History Is Personal (University of Nebraska Press, 2018); Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed (University of Nebraska Press, 2002); and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) with coauthor Sondra Perl. Her short work has appeared in AGNI, the Missouri Review, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, the Boston Globe, including ten notables in Best American Essays. She is Professor Emerita in Writing at Stockton University and lives in Princeton, NJ.