Cara Blue Adams earned her MFA from the University of Arizona. She won The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize and was the first runner-up for the Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Kenyon Review and The Sun. She lives in Baton Rouge, where she is the managing editor of The Southern Review. Her review of How to Leave Hialeah, by Jennine Capó Crucet, appears in Ploughshares Winter 2010-11.