Leslie Jamison is an American novelist and essayist and the author of The Gin Closet, published by Free Press in 2010; The Empathy Exams, an essay collection published by Graywolf Press in 2014; The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, published by Little Brown in 2018; and Make It Scream, Make It Burn, published by Little, Brown in 2019. Jamison also directs the non-fiction concentration in writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.