Laura Furman is the author of four short story collections, two novels, and a memoir. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review, The American Scholar, Subtropics, The Yale Review, and other publications. Series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories from 2003 to 2019, she has been awarded residencies by the Liguria Study Center (Bogliasco Foundation), the American Academy in Rome, and Yaddo. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Paisano Project, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Furman is a professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Albuquerque.