Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt

University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the

PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is

a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville,

Tennessee.

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