Janice Obuchowski’s debut story collection, The Woods (University of Iowa Press), was the 2022 winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Prize in the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series.  Her fiction has twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and has appeared in Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, Story, Gettysburg Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from UC Irvine and served as a fiction editor for the New England Review.