Malerie Willens’ fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Granta online, Tin House, The Sewanee Review, AGNI, The Missouri Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Electric Lit‘s Recommended Reading, Stranger’s Guide: The California Issue, Open City, and other literary magazines. The recipient of a Pushcart prize, an ASME nomination in Fiction, and a forthcoming MacDowell Fellowship, she’s currently completing work on her first novel.