Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries. Her stories and essays have been published in Best New American Voices, Tin House, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books Special Fiction Issue, and in numerous other literary journals. A graduate of Bennington College, she was a Walter Dakin Fellow and has received a Getty Foundation Scholarship. A professor of fiction, she lives in Los Angeles and her novel BURST is forthcoming from Zibby Books.