Lauren Morrow is a graduate of the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where the story published in these pages received a Hopwood Award, a Tyson Award in Fiction, and an Andrea Beauchamp Prize. Her work has appeared the South Carolina Review, where it won the 2021 Ronald Moran Prize in Fiction, and Parhelion Literary Magazine, among other publications. She is a 2022 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow. Originally from St. Louis, MO, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is working on a short story collection and a novel.