Deirdre Danklin holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. The pieces in this collection were published in numerous literary magazines including, Wigleaf, Hobart, and The Jellyfish Review. These pieces were also nominated for numerous awards and anthologies including Best American Short Stories and Best Small Fictions. Danklin's novella, Catastrophe, won the 2021 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was published by Texas Review Press. Danklin's nonfiction has been published in The Ploughshares Blog and CRAFT, among other places. Currently, Danklin is an adjunct professor of writing, and she writes editorial letters for Fractured Lit, The Masters Review, and Uncharted Mag. She won a 2022 independent artist grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and two cats.