MARY MCMYNE was raised on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana by ex-hippie parents who introduced her to Thoreau and Lewis Carroll and Frank Zappa at an impressionable age. At Louisiana State University, she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English and creative writing in 2000 and 2002. She went on to earn her MFA in fiction from New York University in 2007, the same year she won the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress. Her other honors include winning the Robert Olen Butler Short Story Award and the Tony Bill Screenwriting Award while at LSU. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Delta Review, Country Roads, Web del Sol, Exquisite Corpse, and the Double Dealer. She lives with her husband and daughter in Upper Peninsula Michigan, where she teaches writing, creative writing, and literature at Lake Superior State University and edits Border Crossing, an international journal of literature and art. Her prose is represented by Kathleen Anderson of Anderson Literary Management. She is currently finishing a novel.