Gary Sernovitz is the author of 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 for The New York Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker online, New York, n+1, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. For the better part of 30 years, Gary also worked in finance, first at Goldman Sachs and then for 21 years at an energy-focused private equity firm where he was a managing director. Gary is also on the boards or investment committees of Sustaining Our Urban Landscape, Touro Synagogue New Orleans, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and the New Orleans JCC.

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