Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, most recently All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories. His fiction has appeared in nearly one hundred periodicals, including Harper’s, The Atlantic,The Georgia Review, Epoch, The Southern Review, and Boulevard. His work has been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards: The Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize series. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he directs the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.