Maud Casey is the author of three novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Genealogy, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and The Man Who Walked Away; and a collection of stories, Drastic. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Fairy Tale Review, Forklift, Ohio, Five Chapters, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Imagination, Salon, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Washington, D.C. and teaches at the University of Maryland.