Laura van den Berg recently completed her MFA at Emerson College. Her stories have or will soon appear in One Story, StoryQuarterly, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, among others, and have received awards from Glimmer Train and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The recipient of the 2007 Dzanc Prize, Laura’s first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, will be published by Dzanc Books in 2009.