Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs The Glass Eye and ​Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl. Featured by Poets & Writers as one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017, The Glass Eye was also selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, an Indies Introduce Pick, and an Indie Next Pick. ​Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl will be published by Tin House Books in October, 2019. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University.