Anne Raeff is the author of Win­ter Kept Us Warm (Coun­ter­point Press). Her short sto­ry col­lec­tion,The Jun­gle Around Uswon the 2015 Flan­nery O’Con­nor Award for Short Fic­tion. The col­lec­tion is also a final­ist for the Cal­i­for­nia Book Award and was onThe San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle’s100 Best Books of 2017 list. Her sto­ries and essays have appeared inNew Eng­land Review,ZYZZY­VA, andGuer­ni­caamong oth­er places. Her first nov­elClara Mond­schein’s Melan­cho­liawas pub­lished in 2002. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works pri­mar­i­ly with recent immi­grants. She too is a child of immi­grants and much of her writ­ing draws on her fam­i­ly’s his­to­ry as refugees from war and the Holo­caust. She lives in San Fran­cis­co with her wife and two cats.