Faith Merino is the author of Cormorant Lake, which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Award. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Indiana Review, Uncharted Magazine, and more. She is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, with an MFA in fiction from UC Davis, and she currently teaches English at Folsom Lake College.