Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Stephanie Reents has lived in a shared flat in Oxford, England, a tiny studio on the wrong side of the tracks in Idaho Falls, a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan’s West Village, an adobe near the Sonora desert, a garden apartment in the Upper Haight of San Francisco, and the old Hamilton Watch Factory building in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her fiction has been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories, noted in the Best American Short Stories, and has appeared in numerous journals. She teaches in the English department at College of the Holy Cross and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.