Varley O’Connor is the author of four novels, The Master’s Muse (Scribner, 2012), The Cure (Bellevue Literary Press, 2007), A Company of Three (Algonquin, 2003), and Like China (William Morrow, 1991). Her short prose has appeared in The Missouri Review, Santa Monica Review, The Sun Magazine, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Faultline: Journal of Art and Literature, Driftwood, The MacGuffin, and in an anthology, Naming the World and Other Exercises for Creative Writers (Random House, 2008). An MFA fiction graduate in The Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, she is currently Associate Professor at Kent State University, where she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction writing for the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. In 2015, she was visiting fiction writer at UC Irvine. She first attended the Community of Writers in 1989 and has returned in recent years to serve on the staff. www.varleyoconnor.com