Janna Brooke Wallack’s stories have appeared in literary publications such as Hobart, Upstreet, and American Literary Review. Her short story “Campaigning” was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. This novel’s prologue “Five Pictures” was a finalist for Glimmer Train Press’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her story “Cat and Rose” received a Pushcart nomination by The MacGuffin. She grew up in Miami Beach in the 1970’s and 80’s, a landscape and childhood that inspired her debut novel. She now resides in New York’s Hudson River Valley where she writes, works, and never gives up trying to lose ten pounds.