VICKI COVINGTON is the author of the novels Gathering Home, Birds of Paradise, Night Ride Home, The Last Hotel for Women, and, most recently, Once in a Blue Moon—as well as a book of essays, Women in a Man’s World, Crying, and the memoir Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage, which she co-wrote with her husband, Dennis Covington. Her fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker.
