Matthew Pitt is the author of the previous story collection Attention Please Now, winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize and finalist for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. Stories of his have received numerous awards, are cited in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies, and appear in Best New American Voices, Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, Conjunctions, Epoch, and the Southern Review, among other publications. A native of St. Louis, he lives with his wife and daughters in Fort Worth, where he teaches at TCU.
