Laurie Stone's fourth book, My Life as an Animal, Stories, will be published this October by Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. Her recent short fiction appears in Fence, The Collagist, Barzakh, The Offing, and Five on the Fifth. Her work has also appeared in Open City, Nanofiction, Threepenny Review, and Creative Nonfiction among other journals. To learn more about her work visit lstonehere.wordpress.com as well as Facebook and Twitter @lauriestone.