The Drum

Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller.

Her essay "Finding Forgiveness in a Ziploc" appears in the July 2013 issue of The Drum, and first appeared in print in the New York Times' Modern Love section in 2009.