ANGELA PNEUMAN, raised in Kentucky, is a formerStegner Fellow and teaches fiction writingat Stanford University. Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.Her widely praised storycollection, Home Remedies, was hailed as call[ing] to mind Alice Munro by the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Chicagoand in the Bay Area of California.