Gary Sernovitz has spent the last quarter-century working in and observing how money works, from Goldman Sachs to nearly twenty years at a private equity firm where he is now a managing director. He has published three novels, most recently The Counting House about the chief investment officer of a college endowment, and a non-fiction book about the U.S. shale revolution. He has also written numerous essays and reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, New York, n+1, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

A native of Milwaukee and longtime resident of New York City, Gary now lives in New Orleans with his wife and daughter.