Lacey N. Dunham's fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, CHEAP POP, Midwestern Gothic, Wig-Wag, The Other Stories, The Collagist, and Full Stop, among others. The editor of five anthologies of writing that have received recognition in the Washington Post, NPR, and the New York Times, she is currently the fiction editor at Necessary Fiction, a contributing editor for Story, and serves as education director for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. A first-generation college graduate, she lives in Washington, DC. Find her on twitter @bookbent.