Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark writes fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, Vox, Michigan Quarterly Review, 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. She lives with her family in Northampton, Massachusetts.