Karen E. Bender is the author of Like Normal People, a novel, and is co-editor of the anthology Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Story and other magazines, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and has won two Pushcart Prizes. She has received grants from the NEA and the Rona Jaffe Foundation and is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. You can find out more about Choice at www.choice-stories.com.

Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of two novels, All Will Be Revealed and
All The Money in the World. He teaches creative writing at the University of
North Carolina Wilmington. You can reach him at robertanthonysiegel.com.

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