A novelist and screenwriter, Diana Wagman received an M.A. from American University and an M. F. A. from the American Film Institute. She is the author of three novels: Skin Deep was heralded by the New York Times as a “brilliant debut,” and Spontaneous was honored with the USA PEN West Award for Fiction. Bump, her most recent novel, has been optioned as a film and was short listed for the Dublin Literary Prize. The author of the film, Delivering Milo (2001), starring Albert Finney and Bridget Fonda, Wagman has won a Washington Area Filmmaker’s Grant and a Silver Eagle Award at the Chicago Film Festival.Currently, she teaches fiction writing at UCLA Writer's Extension and screenwriting and adaptation at Loyola Marymount University and the California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two teenage children.