Caren Beilin grew up in Germantown, Philadelphia. Her fiction can be found in McSweeney's, Fence, and in the DIAGRAM/ New Michigan Press chapbook, Americans, Guests, or Us. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, in its various forms, has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, a finalist in Fence's Modern Prose Prize, and winner of Noemi Press's Book Award for Fiction.