Michelle Herman’s books include three novels—Missing (Ohio State University Press, 1990), Dog (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), and Devotion (Outpost19, 2016)—and the novella collection A New and Glorious Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998), as well as three collections of essays—The Middle of Everything (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), Stories We Tell Ourselves (University of Iowa Press, 2013), and Like a Song (Outpost19, 2015). She writes the Sunday Care and Feeding column for Slate and teaches writing at The Ohio State University.