Cara Diaconoff earned a B.A. at Oberlin College, an M.A. in English literature at University of Wisconsin, and an M.F.A. in creative writing at Indiana University. She has taught writing and literature as a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University and at Whitman College, as a lecturer at Texas Christian University, and as a Peace Corps volunteer at colleges in Russia. She also served as managing editor of THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW. Currently, she teaches at Bellevue College, near Seattle. Diaconoff is the author of a story collection, UNMARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS, published by Lewis-Clark Press, and two novels, I'LL BE A STRANGER TO YOU and MARIAN HALL. I'LL BE A STRANGER TO YOU has been published by Outpost19 as an e-book. It also won first prize in the novel category in the Utah Original Writing Competition, sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, and MARIAN HALL was a semifinalist in the 2010 James Jones Novel Fellowship competition. Diaconoff’s stories and creative essays have appeared individually in INDIANA REVIEW, OTHER VOICES, THE ADIRONDACK REVIEW, DESCANT, and elsewhere, and her work has been honored with a fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission and residencies at the MacDowell Colony. She is currently working on a new project, a book of stories updating Russian fairy and folk tales.