Margot Livesey (fiction) is the author of seven novels—Homework (Viking, 1990; Picador, 2001), Criminals, The Missing World (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 and 2000, respectively), Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona (Henry Holt, 2001 and 2004), The House on Fortune Street (HarperCollins, 2008), and The Flight of Gemma Hardy (HarperCollins 2012)—and a collection of stories, Learning by Heart (Penguin, 1986). The fiction editor of Ploughshares, she has published stories in The New Yorker, Story, American Short Fiction, North American Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. "Obituary" was collected in the New Press Anthology: Best Canadian Short Fiction. Her essay, "How to Tell a True Story," which first appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, was reprinted in The Best Writing on Writing (Story Press, 1994). Margot Livesey grew up in Scotland and now lives in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has taught at a number of American colleges and universities, including Williams College, Boston University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of California at Irvine. Her current appointment is as a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston. She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.