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 her novel-in-progress, WAIT, won the Faulkner-Wisdom Award. She has won the Robert Olen Butler Short Story Award (2001), the Tony Bill Screenwriting Award (2002), and had another project short-listed for the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Award (2007). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Country Roads, Web del Sol, Exquisite Corpse, and the Double Dealer. During the last five years, she has taught writing at New York University, New Jersey City University, and ASA CAP Columbia University. She currently teaches writing and literature in Lafayette, Louisiana, where she lives in a hundred-year-old cypress cottage with her husband, their border collie, and two black cats.