Corie Adj­mi is the author of the short sto­ry col­lec­tion Life and Oth­er Short­com­ings, which won an Inter­na­tion­al Book Award, an IBPA Ben­jamin Franklin award, and an Amer­i­can Fic­tion Award. Her essays and short sto­ries have appeared in dozens of jour­nals and mag­a­zines, includ­ing Huff­Post, North Amer­i­can Review, Indi­ana Review, Medi­um, Moth­er­well, Kveller, and oth­ers. The Mar­riage Box is Corie’s first nov­el. She is a moth­er and grand­moth­er and lives and works in New York City.