Victoria Lancelotta is the author of Here in the World: 13 Stories, and the novels Far and Coeurs Blesses. Her fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Agni, the Gettysburg Review, McSweeneys, and other magazines, both print and electronic. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millenium. She has been a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship, a previous Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Frederick, MD.