The Author: Naomi R. Rand received her Ph.D. from C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature at Long Island University. Dr. Rand published a critical essay in Melus and her fiction has been published in Other Voices, The Florida Review, The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Cutbank, Invisible City, The Berkeley Short Fiction Review, Nebo, and Telescope. She was the recipient of the Katherine Newman Award.