PIA Z. EHRHARDT lives in New Orleans with her husband and son, where she substitute-teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, tutors in the charter schools, court-watches, and is a contributing editor to Narrative Magazine. Her stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Mississippi Review, Oxford American, Five Chapters, and Narrative Magazine, and have been anthologized in Stories From The Blue Moon Café V, and New Sudden Fiction: Short-Shorts From America and Beyond. Her short story collection, Famous Fathers & Other Stories, was published by MacAdam/Cage (June 2007). Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and can be heard on KQED. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Fellowship and the 2005 Narrative Prize. Her first novel is coming soon, soon.