Author of four books of fiction, including the story-collections Lies of the Saints (A New York Times Notable Book for 1996), The Baby Tree, and The Good Life, Erin McGraw teaches creative writing at The Ohio State University. A new novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, will be published this summer by Houghton-Mifflin. Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, STORY, and elsewhere. Her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize and fellowships at the McDowell and Yaddo writers’ colonies. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught at DePauw University and the University of Cincinnati, where she received the Boyce Award for Excellence in Teaching.