Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently What We Do with the Wreckage (UGA), which won the 2017 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, Elita (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University), comes out in January of 2025. Kirsten’s short fiction has been widely published in journals, including McSweeney’s, One Story, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and others. She has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize. Kirsten teaches middle school in Seattle and lives with her family near the shore of Puget Sound.