Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, the Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, the Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, and Denver Quarterly. She has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a United States Artist Fellowship. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the James Merrill House, the Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, Blue Mountain Center, and Ledig House. She earned a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches at the University of San Francisco.