Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of two books of poetry Funny (University of Wisconsin, 2005)and The Next Ancient World (Tupeloe Press, 2001). Her non-fiction books are Doubt: A History (HarperOne, 2004 and The Happiness Myth (HarperOne, 2007).She earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Columbia University. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at The New School and is a fellow of The New York Institute for the Humanities. Read more about Jennifer Michael Hecht here. Read her BAP blog posts here.