Katherine Damm's short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. from the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, where she taught in the English department and co-edited the literary magazine, Faultline. She graduated with an A.B. in Literature from Harvard College, where she wrote for the Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She lives in Philadelphia with her family and her poodle and is an Associate Teaching Professor of English at Northeastern, New York City. She is working on a novel.