ABOUT THE AUTHOR Elizabeth Earley won the David Friedman Memorial Prize, and has been a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award (twice), the 2011 Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction, and the Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. She holds a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her stories and essays have appeared in many publications including Time Out, The Chicago Reader, Outside Magazine, and Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere. A novel excerpt, "Backbone," won an Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train March 2013 Fiction Open contest.