Mary Kuryla is the author of Freak Weather Stories, recipient of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press). Her novel Away to Stay is forthcoming with Regal House Press. Kuryla’s stories have received the Pushcart Prize and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Prize, and have appeared in Agni, Epoch, Pleiades, New Orleans Review, Witness, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.