About the Author

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. He has published three previous story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone, The Decline of Our Neighborhood, and The Artist Wears Rough Clothing; a book of essays, Professors at Play; two short novels, Losses and The Derangement of Jules Torquemal, and essays, stories, and poems in a variety of scholarly and literary journals. His novel Zublinka Among Women was awarded the Indie Book Awards first-place prize for fiction.