Marian Crotty is the author of What Counts as Love (University of Iowa Press, 2017), which was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories have appeared in places such as the Kenyon Review, the Sun, and The Best American Short Stories 2020. She is an associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland and a contributing editor at the Common.