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Kamy Wicoff is an author and literary salonierre.  Her first book, I Do But I Don’t: Why The Way We Marry Matters (Da Capo, 2006), was an LA Times Bestseller and was featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s “On Point,” The CBS Early Show, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Jose Mercury News and in other major media outlets.  She currently hosts The New York Salon of Women Writers with the author, editor and critic Nancy K. Miller.  Founded in London in 2003 by Kamy and the late biographer Diane Middlebrook, the salon brings women writers together to discuss the craft and business of writing.  The salon also has branches in London and San Francisco.  Kamy serves on the board of Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research and on the board of The I Do Foundation.  She previously served as the Fiction/Nonfiction editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly.  Her work has appeared in Salon.com and was anthologized most recently in About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look In The Mirror (2008). Kamy was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and went on to earn a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in 2003. She lives in New York City with her two sons.