Erika Krouse has published fiction in the Atlantic Monthly, Story, Ploughshares, Glamour, Shenandoah, and the Summer Fiction issue of the New Yorker. She is the recipient of the Lauren Husted Scholarship in Fiction (Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1999), the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction (Sewanee Writer's Conference, 2000), the Eve of St. Agnes Award (1997), and the Ruth Underhill Award (1997). She received her M.A. in English Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently living in Boulder and working on a novel. Her collection of short stories, Come Up and See Me Sometime, was published by Scribner and has been translated into six languages. Come Up and See Me Sometime won the Paterson Fiction Prize and was a selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book for the year. Other work has appeared in the following anthologies: A Galaxy Not So Far Away, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, and the upcoming Sex and Sensibility .