Noley Reid is the author of the novels Pretend We Are Lovely and In the Breeze of Passing Things and the short story collection So There! Her stories and essays have appeared in the Southern Review, Rumpus, Lily, Arts & Letters, Meridian, Pithead Chapel, Bustle, Confrontation, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Reid holds an MFA from George Mason University, and she taught creative writing for eighteen years in colleges, universities, and community centers. She lives in southwest Indiana with her two best boys, a rabbit, and two dogs, the original origami dogs.