Bryn Greenwood is a fourth-generation Kansan, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. She earned an MA in creative writing and continues to work in academia as an administrator. She is the author of the novels All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Last Will, and Lie Lay Lain. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Chiron Review, Karamu, The Battered Suitcase, and Menda City Review. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.