M. Eileen Cronin was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction and was awarded the 2008 Washington Writing Prize in Short Fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Post, LA Times, Third Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, The Literary Review, and GW Review. Her novels have both been finalists in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award for novels-in-progress. She’s an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine and a practicing clinical psychologist.