Bonnie Friedman is the author of the bestselling, widely anthologized Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life, named one of the best books on writing by The Center for Fiction and Poets & Writers. She is also the author of the memoirs The Thief of Happiness and Surrendering Oz, longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

She has contributed essays to The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, among other places, and her essays have been selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Writing, The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Buddhist Writing, and The Best Spiritual Writing. Her first novel, Don’t Stop, was published in April 2026.