Patricia Engel is the author of Vida (Grove Atlantic, 2010), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (Grove Atlantic, 2013), winner of the International Latino Book Award; and The Veins of the Ocean (Grove Atlantic, 2016), winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and elsewhere.