Sara Majka earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and was a fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, PEN America, A Public Space, VQR, American Short Fiction, and BRICK, among others. She is the author of the critically acclaimed debut collection Cities I’ve Never Lived In, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of The Millions’ Most Anticipated books of 2016 (Graywolf/A Public Space).