Lauri Anderson Alford's fiction has appeared in PANK, The Cincinnati Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, The Common, The Greensboro Review, NANO Fiction, and elsewhere. Her awards include The Tobias Wolff Award, The Robert Watson Literary Prize, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She won Round Six of NPR's Three-Minute Fiction Contest, which was judged by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University, and she now lives in Bryan, Texas.