Kathy Flann has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, where she also served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including The North American Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, Yemassee, The Barcelona Review, and Third Coast, and have been selected for the anthologies The O. Henry Festival Stories (1998) and New Stories from the South (Algonquin, 1996). Her unpublished short story collection, entitled Smoky Ordinary, was recently short-listed for the Virginia Kirkus Literary Award. Currently, she is the program director for creative writing at St Martin’s College in Lancaster, England.