Leigh Stein is the author of three books, including the novel The Fallback Plan, which made the "highbrow brilliant" quadrant of New York Magazine's approval matrix. She co-directs the literary nonprofit organization Out of the Binders, dedicated to increasing the diversity of voices in the media and literary arts through bicoastal conferences for women and gender non-conforming writers called BinderCon. Her memoir Land of Enchantment is forthcoming from Blue Rider Press in 2016.