The Season of Migration The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling. Nellie Hermann, M.F.A. is Creative Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She is a graduate of Brown University and the M.F.A. program at Columbia. Her first novel, The Cure for Grief(Scribner: 2008), received acclaim in such publications as Time Magazine, Elle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and others, and was chosen as a Target "Breakout" book. Her non-fiction has appeared in an anthology about siblings, Freud’s Blindspot (Free Press: 2010), as well as in Academic Medicine. Over the last eight years she has taught fiction and narrative medicine to undergraduates, medical students, graduate students, and clinicians of all sorts, and has given conference addresses in Iowa, California, Seoul, Korea, and elsewhere. Her second novel, The Season of Migration, a fictional exploration of the early life of Vincent van Gogh, will be published on January 6th by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.