Paulette Livers is a Kentucky transplant to Chicago via Atlanta and Boulder, where she recently completed the MFA at the University of Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Southwest Review, The Dos Passos Review, Spring Gun Press, and elsewhere, and can be heard at the audio–journal Bound Off. Livers was awarded the 2012 Meyerson Prize for Fiction (for material from Cementville), and received Honorable Mention for the Red Hen Press Short Story Award (also for material from Cementville). This is her first novel.
