Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark writes short fiction and essays. Her work has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, Vox, and Prairie Schooner, where it received the Lawrence Foundation Award for the best story published in 2017. She is the recipient of a Steinbeck fellowship from San Jose State University and a Poe/Faulkner fellowship from the University of Virginia, where she did her MFA. She lives with her family in Western Massachusetts.