Edith Pearlman’s fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South. The author of three previous short-story collections: Vaquita (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature), Love Among the Greats (winner of the Spokane Fiction Award), and How to Fall (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize). She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Alice Mattison's most recent novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten In Brooklyn, was published in 2008 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award; an excerpt appeared in The New Yorker. Her collection of connected stories, In Case We're Separated, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Connecticut Book Award for Fiction. She is the author of four previous novels, including The Book Borrower, three earlier collections of stories, and a collection of poems. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Yale Review, The Women's Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere, and have been reprinted in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. She teaches fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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