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, reviews, and feature pieces for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Businesssweek, The Wall Street Journal, n+1, 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.