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Tova Mirvis is the author of two novels, The Ladies Auxiliary, which was a national bestseller published by W.W. Norton in 1999 and The Outside World, published in 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf. Her essays have appeared in various anthologies and newspapers including The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and Poets and Writers, and her fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio.

In 2009, she was named a Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, and in 2010, was selected as a Visiting Research Associate at The Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She has taught expository writing at Columbia College, fiction writing at Gotham Writer's Workshop in New York and at Grub Street in Boston. She has also lectured at many universities and communal organizations. After receiving a BA in English literature from Columbia College, she earned an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts.

She lives in Newton, MA with her husband and three children and is completing a third novel.

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