Bonnie Zindel, LCSW is an artist who resides in New York City and Bridgehampton. She is also a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan, a faculty member, supervisor, and a training analyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is the editor of Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others (Karnac Books, 2017). She is the author of numerous articles on creativity and a founding editor and creative literary editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, She is the author of “A Bird that Thunders: An analysis with Emmanuel Ghent, in Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience (Routledge, 2013). Bonnie has conducted writing groups for psychoanalysts for over twenty years and has conducted writing workshops at international conferences in Rome, Madrid, and San Francisco. The New York Times said, “She runs what may be the most nurturing writing group on the literary scene.” A playwright and novelist (HarperCollins, Viking, Bodley Head), Bonnie is a former member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit. She has most recently written a play, My Simone, based on the life of Simone de Beauvoir, which was performed in New York in 2016.