Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books of short fiction and creative nonfiction, and the editor of a short-story anthology, The Uncanny Reader (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). Her linked story collection Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (Sarabande Books, 2003) won the National Jewish Book Award. Her essay collection The Night Gardener: A Search for Home (The Lyons Press) won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, AGNI, Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Oregon State University. (updated 4/2017)