Mary Laura Philpott is the nationally bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and the memoir Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives, which the New York Times called “her new masterwork.” She writes about the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life, and her writing has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. A former bookseller, she also hosted an interview program on Nashville Public Television for several years. Mary Laura lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family.