Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction, This Life She’s Chosen and Swimming With Strangers (both published by Chronicle Books). Her stories have been published in One Story, The American Scholar, Willow Springs, and other journals. She has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. Kirsten teaches at the Attic Learning Community in Woodinville, Washington and at the Hugo House in Seattle. She attended the Community of Writers in 2002 and returned as an alumni reader in 2005. www.kirstenlunstrum.net