Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction. This Life She’s Chosen was published by Chronicle Books in 2005, and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for the year. Chronicle Books will publish her second collection, Swimming With Strangers, in October of 2008. With Jacqueline Kolosov, she is also editor of the anthology The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fiction (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008). Kirsten’s short fiction has appeared in One Story, The American Scholar, and Willow Springs, among other journals. She has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives with her husband, photographer Nathan Lunstrum, and their young son. In the fall of 2008, she will join the creative writing faculty at Purchase College (SUNY).