Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA from New York University. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021 (selected by Jesmyn Ward), and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She lives in California.