Priscilla Gilman is a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College and the author of The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy (Harper) and The Critic’s Daughter (forthcoming from Norton). She has written about autism, literature, education, and the arts for the Boston Globe, the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and Slate, and was the parenting/education advice columnist for #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution website. Gilman speaks frequently at schools, organizations, and conferences and teaches literature classes for Yale Alumni College. She is a Nalanda Institute certified Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness meditation instructor and the mother of an autistic and a dyslexic son.