Becky Mandelbaum is the winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the 2013 Lawrence Art Center’s Langston Hughes Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Salt Hill, Great Jones Street, Hobart, Juked, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. Her winning collection of stories, Bad Kansas, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in Fall of 2017. Originally from Kansas, she currently caretakes a ranch in Colorado.