About the Author

Trudy Lewis is the author of the short story collection The Bones of Garbo, winner of the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction, and author of the novel Private Correspondences, which won the William Goyen Prize. Lewis’s fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, Cimarron Review, Meridian, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She serves as the director of the creative writing program at the University of Missouri, USA.