Lacy Crawford
<p>Before she found the way to tell her own story in the memoir <em>Notes on a Silencing</em>, Lacy Crawford spent years helping other high schoolers tell theirs in her debut novel <em>Early Decision</em>, inspired by her work. For fifteen years, Crawford served as a highly discreet independent college admissions counselor to the children of powerful clients in cities such as New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. Her "day jobs" included serving as senior editor of Narrative magazine and director of the Burberry Foundation. Educated at Princeton and the University of Chicago, Crawford lives in California with her husband and two children.</p>
