JONATHAN PENNER is the author of the novels Going Blind, Natural Order, and The Intelligent Traveler's Guide to Chiribosco, and his previous collection of stories, Private Parties, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His stories have appeared in Grand Street, Paris Review, Commentary, Ploughshares, and many other journals. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia. Penner teaches fiction writing at the University of Arizona.