PETER FERRY is a teacher, writer, and editor. He has written textbooks for Rand McNally and travel pieces for the "Chicago Tribune "and the "Chicago Sun-Times," His short stories have appared in "StoryQuarterly, Overtures, "the "New Review of Literature,"" "and "McSweeney's," He has won the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for Short Fiction. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.