Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s first book, Random Family, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize. LeBlanc’s work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Esquire, Elle, Spin, the Source, the Village Voice, and other magazines. She is theLogan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville, New York. She lives in Manhattan.