Mona Simpson is a writer based in Santa Monica, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Columbia University. Simpson is the author of seven novels: Anywhere but Here (Knopf, 1986), The Lost Father (Knopf, 1993), A Regular Guy (Knopf, 1997), Off Keck Road (Knopf, 2000), My Hollywood (Knopf, 2010), and Casebook (Knopf, 2014). Her latest novel is Commitment (Knopf, 2023), about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family as she enters a California state mental health hospital in the 1970s. Simpson’s short stories have appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic and the Iowa Review, and she is the recipient of a Whiting Prize, Lila Wallace Readers Digest Prize, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was also a finalist for a Pen Falkner award and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She has served as editor, publisher, and a member of the board of directors and editorial committee at the Paris Review and held the Sadie Samuelson Levy Chair at Bard College. She is on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles.