Paula Whyman’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, and The Gettysburg Review, among other publications. She received a 2014 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and her fiction was selected for anthologies including Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. She has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and The Studios of Key West, and a 2014 Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. “Self Report” is part of a novel-in-stories.