Christine Schutt (fiction) is the author of two short story collections, Nightwork (Knopf, 1996) and A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer (TriQuarterly Books, 2005). Her first novel, Florida (TriQuarterly Books, 2003), was a National Book Award finalist; her second novel, All Souls (Harcourt, 2009), a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. A third novel, Prosperous Friends, is forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic in the fall of 2012. She has published fiction in Harper’s Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Kenyon Review. Among other honors, Schutt has twice won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, as well as Pushcart and Mississippi Review fiction prizes. She is the recipient of NYFA and Guggenheim Fellowships. Schutt is a senior editor of NOON, a literary annual, and lives and teaches in New York.