Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the story collection "Minor Robberies" and the novel "Vacation", winner of the 2009 Cabell First Novelist Award and a "New York Times Book Review" Critics' Choice. Her work has been featured in "Harper's Magazine", "McSweeney's", "The Believer", and the "Boston Review". She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a 2009 Creative Capital grant for Innovative Literature and was a "Harper's Bazaar" Editors' Choice: Name to Know in 2011. She teaches at Wesleyan University and currently lives in New York.