About the Author

Kate Bernheimer grew up in Waban, Massachusetts, and is the author of two short story collections — How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and Horse, Flower, Bird — both with Coffee House Press as well as three novels. Editor of the World Fantasy Award winning collection My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the World Fantasy Award finalist xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths, both with Penguin Books, she has also edited two nonfiction collections of essays about fairy tales: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor/Vintage), and Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press). Her newest short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, The Adroit Journal, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. With Laird Hunt, she was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for the co-authored novella Office at Night, a joint commission of Coffee House Press and The Walker Art Center; with Andrew Bernheimer, she co-authored the design book Fairy Tale Architecture (ORO Editions), based on their long-running series of the same title for Places. Kate Bernheimer is also founding editor of Fairy Tale Review (Wayne State University Press), now in its 19th year of publication, and author of three children’s books, all published by Penguin Random House. Her books have been translated or are currently being translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, and Japanese. She is Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona, where she teaches creative writing and a popular large lecture fairy tale class.