Carol LaHines’ fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, The Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Dakota Review, The South Carolina Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Nebraska Review, North Atlantic Review, Sycamore Review, Permafrost, redivider, Literary Orphans, Brain Child Magazine, Literal Latte, and elsewhere. Her short story, “Papijack,” was selected by judge Patrick Ryan as the recipient of the 2017 Lamar York Prize for Fiction. Her short stories and novellas have also been finalists for the Mary McCarthy Prize from Sarabande Books, the David Nathan Meyerson fiction prize, the New Letters short story award, the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society award, and the Disquiet Literary Prize, among others. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of New York University, Gallatin Division.