Karen E. Bender is the author of the novel Like Normal People. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including the "New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Story," and the "Harvard Review," and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Mystery Stories. She lives in North Carolina with her family and is currently working on a novel and collection of stories. Nina de Gramont is the author of Of Cats and Men, a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines including "Isotope, Nerve, Exquisite Corpse, Post Road, "and "Seventeen,"