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Author Description Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of <i>The Believer</i> magazine. She has been published in <i>The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Story</i>, <i>Zoetrope All-Story</i>, and <i>McSweeney's Quarterly</i>. Her novels include <i>The Mineral Palace</i> (2000), <i>The Effect of Living Backwards</i> (2003) and <i>The Uses of Enchantment</i> (2006) and <i>The Vanishers</i> (2012).<br /><br />She was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University.<br /><br />She wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of <i>The Believer</i>, a publication which attempts to avoid snarkiness and "give people and books the benefit of the doubt."<br /><br />In 2005, she told the New York Times culture writer A.O. Scott how'd she decided on <i>The Believer</i>'s tone: "I really saw 'the end of the book' as originating in the way books are talked about now in our culture and especially in the most esteemed venues for book criticism. It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't." She added her own aim as book critic would be "to endow something with importance, by treating it as an emotional experience."<br /><br />She has also written short stories, such as "The Santosbrazzi Killer", which was published in Harper's Magazine.<br /><br />Julavitz currently lives in Maine and Manhattan with her husband, the writer Ben Marcus, and their children

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