Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Neighbor

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the author of two novels: Set Me Free (Warner Books, 2007), which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best book of fiction by an American woman published in 2007, and The Effects of Light (Warner Books, 2005). Winner of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, she is also co-writer and co-producer for Camera Obscura (2010), a short film adaptation of The Effects of Light, as well as co-writer and co-producer of a feature length adaptation of The Effects of Light, now in pre-production. She's lived and worked in Prospect Heights for twelve years. Her website is mirandabeverly-whittemore.com.