SHERRIL JAFFE is the PEN Award winning author of ten books, including Scars Make Your Body More Interesting, This Flower Only Blooms Every Hundred Years, The Unexamined Wife, The Faces Reap- pear, House Tours, Interior Designs, Ground Rules, One God Clapping, and Expiration Date. A MacDowell fellow, she holds an MFA from Bennington. Her stories have appeared in a variety of journals, including Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, and American Fiction. Jaffe works as a professor of creative writing and literature at Sonoma State University and lives in San Francisco.