Lee K. Abbott is the Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. He has published six collections of short stories, and his All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories was published by W. W. Norton in 2006. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, his work has appeared in both The Best American Short Stories and The Prize Stories: The O’Henry Awards. (updated 6/2010)