Jillian Medoff is the author of the acclaimed novels Hunger Point (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1997) and Good Girls Gone Bad (HarperCollins, 2002). A former fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Jillian has taught creative writing and composition at New York University and the University of Georgia. A huge seller in the United States, Hunger Point has been translated into several different languages, and is the basis for the original Lifetime movie starring Barbara Hershey and Christina Hendricks. Jillian currently lives with her family in New York, where she is working on a new novel.