Nancy Zafris is the series editor for the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, a position she took after nine years as fiction editor of The Kenyon Review. Her other books include The People I Know, Lucky Strike, and The Home Jar. She is the recipient of many awards, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and has taught at many universities, including Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic as a Fulbright Fellow. Each June she teaches at the Kenyon Review Adult Summer Workshop, where she is also associate director.