Barbara Bourland is the author of the critically acclaimed I’ll Eat When I’m Dead. Bourland is a former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and dog. Her second novel, Fake Like Me, is now available from Grand Central Publishing in North America and from riverrun abroad. Fake Like Me was written with support from The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, where Bourland was a resident over the winter of 2017-2018.