A big thank you to my agent Peter Steinberg. Your support, encouragement, and advice have been and continues to be invaluable to me. Thank you to all my friends and teachers who read these stories in various stages of development: Shilpa Agarwal, Tom Chiarella, Chris Corning, Joe Heithaus, Tanya Knox, Travis Koplow, Edan Lepucki, Paul Mandelbaum, Kathleen Motoike, Carolyn Peters, and Jason Rohrer. And thank you also to Lauren Eggert-Crowe, Zoë Ruiz, and David Rocklin for inviting me to share these stories at your reading series.
For publishing excerpts of the manuscript, thank you to Eclectica Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Juked, and the editors of the anthology Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence.
And finally, thank you to everyone at Red Hen Press!