Liese O'Halloran Schwarz is an ER doctor who wrote her first novel, Near Canaan, while she was still at medical school. Now, nearly thirty years on, her second novel, The Possible World, traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding long-buried secrets.
She attended Harvard University and then medical school at University of Virginia. While in medical school, she won the Henfield/Transatlantic Review Prize and also published her first novel, Near Canaan.
She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is at work on the next book.
