A young woman with short dark hair and fair skin stands indoors in front of a large window with green trees outside. She wears a black top, a delicate necklace, and small earrings, and looks at the camera with a slight smile.

Anna Hogeland is the author of novels The Long Answer (Riverhead Books) and Wild Aster (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). She’s a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine. Her writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Big Issue, iNews, Gloss Magazine, Romper, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. The Long Answer is her first novel and has been translated into seven languages. She lives in western Massachusetts.