Emily Geminder is the author of Dead Girls and Other Stories, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and a Pushcart special mention. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is currently a Provost's Fellow in fiction at the University of Southern California.