Jessica Zafra is the author of the novel The Age of Umbrage, and of The Collected Stories of Jessica Zafra. Twisted, her wildly influential column in the 1990s, spawned a dozen collections of essays on books, travel, movies, music and popular culture. Jessica's essays have also appeared in Newsweek and The New Yorker. She has won Palanca Awards for her short stories and the National Book Award for essay collections. Orders will be shipped starting Oct 15.