STACY BIERLEIN is the author of the forthcoming story collection, A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends (March 2012), and the editor of the award-winning fiction anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. She is a coeditor of the new anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (October 2011). Bierlein is a founding editor of Other Voices Books, and co-creator of the Morgan Street International Novel Series. She contributes essays about writing and publishing to TheNervousBeakdown.com. Originally from Michigan, she now makes her home in Southern California.