Martha Southgate has been an editor at Essence, a reporter for Premiere and the New York Daily News, and a contributor to the New York Times. A graduate of Smith College, she has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. Author of two acclaimed novels, THE FALL OF ROMEand THIRD GIRL FROM THE LEFT, she has taught at Brooklyn College and the New School and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. Find her online at www.marthasouthgate.com.

Books by Martha Southgate

The Taste of Salt

by Martha Southgate

Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations.