NANCY ZAFRIS is the author of The People I Know, recipient of the 1989 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of two novels, Lucky Strike and The Metal Shredders. Her second collection of short stories, The Home Jar, was named one of the top ten books of 2013 by The Minneapolis Star Tribune. After serving as the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review for nine years, she became the editor of the Flannery O'Connor award series for several years. She has recently finished a new novel.