Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In addition to her NY Times best selling novel, Orphan Train, her novels include Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines and Sweet Water. She served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011 and was the on-staff editor and writing coach at the social networking site SheWrites.com. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her family.