Elizabeth Tallent divides her time between Little River and Davis, California, and teaches at the University of California, Davis. The author of two collections of stories, Time with Children and In Constant Flight, and a novel, Museum Pieces, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Honey, a new collection of short stories, is due out in November from Alfred A. Knopf.