Leslie Jamison is an American essayist, novelist, and critic. She is best known for her 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Jamison is also the author of the novel The Gin Closet, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burn. Jamison's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Believer, and other publications. She is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Jamison has also taught at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU, and is currently a professor of nonfiction writing at Yale. Jamison's work focuses on topics such as empathy, illness, addiction, and the power of storytelling. She has written extensively about her own experiences with depression, anxiety, and addiction, and her writing often explores the ways in which we can better understand and relate to one another. Jamison's work is both deeply personal and widely relatable, and her writing has been praised for its insight and empathy.