Katy Lederer

Katy Lederer earned her BA from the University of California-Berkeley and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the full-length collections of poetry Winter Sex (2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (2008), a work that sprang, in part, from her experiences working at a quantitative hedge fund in Manhattan. Lederer is also the author of the memoir, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (2003), which recounts her experiences growing up with her siblings, both world-class poker players. The book was a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” and named a “Best Book of the Year” by Esquire. (Source)