Rita Chang-Eppig has an MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Kenyon Review Online, Santa Monica Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Writers Grotto. This fall, she will be a Steinbeck fellow at the Martha Heasley Cox Center at San Jose State University.