Stephanie Reents is author of the The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review . Her short fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best of the West , and in other publications. She has a book forthcoming from Fiction Advocate about reading Cormac McCarthy's anti-western, Blood Meridian , for the past twenty-five years. She teaches in the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Providence with her husband and son.