Yona Zeldis McDonoughis the author of the novelsYou Were Meant For Me,Two of a Kind,A Wedding in Great Neck,Breaking the Bank,In Dahlia's Wake, andThe Four Temperaments, as well as nineteen books for children. She is also the editor of two essay collections and is the Fiction Editor atLilithmagazine. Her award-winning short fiction, articles, and essays have been published in anthologies and in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.