Loren McAuley is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at NYU. She has won fiction prizes and been published in New Millennium, The Ledge, Writers Workshop, Crab Orchard, New Letters among others, and has been anthologized in American Fiction Volume 11, The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors. She is co-founder of a 501c3 shelter dog rescue and lives in Brooklyn, NY. This is her first published novel.