Alice Mattison’s most recent nov­el, Noth­ing Is Quite For­got­ten In Brook­lyn, was pub­lished in 2008 by Harp­er Peren­ni­al and was a New York Times Book Review Edi­tors’ Choice and a final­ist for the Con­necti­cut Book Award. Her col­lec­tion of con­nect­ed sto­ries, In Case We’re Sep­a­rat­ed, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Con­necti­cut Book Award for Fic­tion. She is the author of four pre­vi­ous nov­els and three ear­li­er col­lec­tions of sto­ries. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in The New York­er, The New York Times, The Yale Review, The Women’s Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Three­pen­ny Review, Glim­mer Train, Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review (which award­ed her the Lawrence Foun­da­tion Prize), Agni, and else­where, and have been reprint­ed in The Push­cart Prize and Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries. She teach­es fic­tion in the Ben­ning­ton Writ­ing Sem­i­nars, at Ben­ning­ton Col­lege in Ver­mont, and teach­es sum­mer work­shops in fic­tion at the Fine Arts Work Cen­ter in Province­town, Mass­a­chu­setts. She lives in New Haven, Con­necti­cut, where she is one of the orga­niz­ers of the Ordi­nary Evening Read­ing Series.