Selena Anderson’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Oxford American, American Short Fiction, BOMB, Callaloo, and Fence. She is a recipient of the 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and has received fellowships from the Kimbilio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Anderson is an assistant professor at San Jose State University and director of the Center for Literary Arts. She is working on a novel.