Kathryn Schwille’s fiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, West Branch, Puerto del Sol, River Styx, Sycamore Review, and other magazines. She has been a finalist for the Pushcart Prize and the Dana Award for Short Fiction, and has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Hambidge Center. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA program, she lives in Charlotte, N.C., where she is at work on a book of stories set against the backdrop of the Columbia shuttle disaster.