Katerina Ivanov Prado is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared in Narrative, Brevity, Catapult, The Rumpus, and Joyland, and has won The Masters Review Emerging Fiction Award, the Narrative Story Contest, and the AWP Intro Journals Award, as well as received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, VCCA, Inprint Houston, Reese’s Book Club, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.