Eliz­a­beth Polin­er is the author of the nov­el As Close to Us as Breath­ing, which won the Janet Hei­dinger Kaf­ka Prize in Fic­tion and was a final­ist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award in Fic­tion and the Rib­alow Prize. She has also pub­lished a poet­ry col­lec­tion, What You Know in Your Hands, and a nov­el-in-sto­ries, Mutu­al Life & Casu­al­ty. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in The Keny­on Review, Tri­Quar­ter­ly, Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review, Sto­ry, and Col­orado Review, among oth­er jour­nals. She lives in Virginia.