Rebecca Kuder's essays and stories have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books; Hags on Fire; Bayou Magazine; Shadows and Tall Trees; Lunch Ticket; Year's Best Weird Fiction vols. 3 & 5; The Rumpus; and Crooked Houses. She received an individual artist excellence award from the Ohio Arts Council, and an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. Rebecca lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with the writer Robert Freeman Wexler and their child. This is her first novel.