Lucy Biederman is the author of The Walmart Book of the Dead (Vine Leaves Press), which won the 2017 Vine Leaves Press Vignette Award and was a finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year. She has written four chapbooks of poetry, and her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Bat City Review, the Collagist, AGNI, Ploughshares, and Pleiades. Her scholarship, which has been published in the Henry James Review, Women’s Studies, the Emily Dickinson Journal, and Studies in the Literary Imagination, focuses on how contemporary American women writers interpret their literary forebears. She is an assistant professor of writing at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio.