Catherine Browder's most recent collection, Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov, has just been released from BkMk Press (November 2014). She is the author of two previous collections and a feuillet, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts Council. Her stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and won awards from American Fiction, Kansas Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Big Muddy and the Missouri Writers Guild. She has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is an advisory editor for New Letters literary magazine, where her book reviews frequently appear. A member of the Dramatist Guild of America, her plays have been produced regionally and in New York City. Prior to teaching creative writing, she taught English as a foreign language in Japan and Taiwan, and ESL at refugee resettlement centers and colleges in the USA. She lives with her husband in Kansas City, Missouri.