Lisa Gornick

Lisa Gornick is the author of five novels, including her most recent, Ana Turns. Her essays have appeared widely, including in the New York Times, the Paris Review, Real Simple, and the Wall Street Journal. A graduate of the Yale clinical psychology program and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia, where she is on the faculty, she was for many years a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst.

Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction

Lisa Gornick Hosts a Conversation with Julia Alvarez, Fiona Davis, Andrea Lee, and Elizabeth Strout

November 27, 2023 By Lisa Gornick

Designing My Characters’ Homes Helps Me Write

On Planners, Plungers, and Different Approaches to Writing a Novel

February 1, 2019 By Lisa Gornick

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