R.L. Maizes was born and raised in Queens, New York. She now lives in Boul­der Coun­ty, Col­orado. Maizes’s short sto­ries have aired on Nation­al Pub­lic Radio and have appeared in the lit­er­ary mag­a­zines Elec­tric Lit­er­a­ture, Wit­ness, Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Review, Slice, and Black­bird among oth­ers. Her essays have been pub­lished in The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, Lilith, and else­where. Maizes is an alum­na of the Bread Loaf Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence, the Sewa­nee Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence, and the Tin House Sum­mer Writ­ers’ Work­shop. Her work has received Hon­or­able Men­tion in Glim­mer Train’s Fic­tion Open con­test, has been a final­ist in numer­ous oth­er nation­al con­tests, and has been nom­i­nat­ed for a Push­cart Prize. She is the author of the short sto­ry col­lec­tion We Love Ander­son Coop­er.