{"product_id":"love-in-the-time-of-times-up-paperback","title":"Love in the Time of Time's Up: Short Fiction Edited by Christine Sneed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Sneed\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith pathos and insight, each of the sixteen accomplished authors-among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Time's Up\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time's Up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanaugh and the tragicomic travails of a woman swiping right on Tinder in order to dispense advice to men whose profiles she finds lacking, these stories offer a blend of humor and horror, victory and heartache, righteous anger and rueful recrimination. It's a collection that's sure to leave a mark on readers' minds--and earn a place in their hearts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren E. Bender\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eRefund\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Story Prize, and longlisted for the Story Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Order\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Story Prize. A new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Words of Dr. L, \u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. Her novels are \u003ci\u003eLike Normal People\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eA Town of Empty Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Guernica\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Her work has been reprinted in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best\u003c\/i\u003e, and have won three Pushcart prizes. Her work has been read by Joanne Woodward on Symphony Space's \"Selected Shorts\" series, and by Levar Burton on \"Levar Burton Reads.\" She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She is Fiction Editor of the literary journal \u003ci\u003eScoundrel Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Visit her at www.karenebender.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay-lee Chai \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eleven books, including her new short story collection \u003ci\u003eTomorrow in Shanghai;\u003c\/i\u003e the memoir \u003cem\u003eHapa Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Ba Jin\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of a 2019 American Book Award. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Crane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels and four collections of short stories, most recently the novel \u003ci\u003eThe History of Great Things\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eTurf\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eWe Only Know So Much\u003c\/i\u003e, has been adapted for film\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. A memoir, \u003ci\u003eThis Story Will Change\u003c\/i\u003e, will be out in 2022 from Counterpoint Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Entel\u003c\/b\u003e's novel, \u003ci\u003eFingerprints of Previous Owners\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Unnamed Press in 2017. Her short stories and essays have been published in such journals as \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHobart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCleaver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJellyfish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, where she teaches courses in creative writing, 19th-century U.S. literature, African-American literature, Caribbean literature, and the literature of social justice, and is the Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts. She mentors in PEN America's Prison Writing Program and has taught fiction workshops for \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin, she currently lives in Iowa City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGina Frangello\u003c\/b\u003e's fifth book, the memoir \u003ci\u003eBlow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpoint), has been selected as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice and received starred reviews in \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of four books of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eA Life in Men\u003c\/i\u003e (Algonquin), which is currently under development by Charlize Theron's production company, Denver \u0026amp; Delilah, and \u003ci\u003eEvery Kind of Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpoint), which was included on several \"best of\" lists for 2016, including \u003ci\u003eChicago Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's and \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books'\u003c\/i\u003e. Now the Creative Nonfiction Editor at the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, Gina brings more than two decades of experience as an editor, having founded both the independent press Other Voices Books and the fiction section of the popular online literary community The Nervous Breakdown. She has also served as the Sunday editor for The Rumpus, and as the faculty editor for both \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e Online and \u003ci\u003eThe Coachella Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in such venues as \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDame\u003c\/i\u003e, and in many other magazines and anthologies, as well as having a column on the \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e blog. She runs Circe Consulting, a full-service company for writers, with the writer Emily Rapp Black, and can be found at www.ginafrangello.org. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Frank\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Outlook for Earthlings.\u003c\/i\u003e Other recent books are \u003ci\u003eWhere You're All Going: Four Novellas\u003c\/i\u003e (Gold Medal, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards; Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction), published by Sarabande Books, and \u003ci\u003eTry to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place\u003c\/i\u003e (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize). Joan's 2017 novel, \u003ci\u003eAll the News I Need\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Juniper Prize for the Novel. Her essay collection, \u003ci\u003eBecause You Have To: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e, won the ForeWord Reviews Silver Book of the Year Award. Her Past honors include the Richard Sullivan Prize, Dana Award, Iowa Writing Award, and notable others. Joan has received grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and Sonoma Arts Council and has been nominated twice for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Northern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Fraterrigo\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two books, \u003ci\u003eGlory Days \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which was named one of \"The Best Fiction Books of 2017\" by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Pregnancy\u003c\/i\u003e (Livingston Press, 2006). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies, among them \u003ci\u003estorySouth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the founder of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, where she teaches classes on the art and craft of writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Freed\u003c\/b\u003e's books include seven novels, a collection of stories and two collections of essays. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, among numerous others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two O. Henry Awards for fiction, and has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Having grown up in South Africa, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student at Columbia University, where she received an MA and PhD in English Literature. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Northern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmina Gautier\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three short story collections: \u003ci\u003eAt-Risk, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNow We Will Be Happy, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Loss of All Lost Things.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAt-Risk\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award; \u003ci\u003eNow We Will Be Happy \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; \u003ci\u003eThe Loss of All Lost Things \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction. Gautier has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the Camargo Foundation, the Chateau de Lavigny, Dora Maar House\/Brown Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. More than one hundred and thirty of her stories have been published, appearing in \u003ci\u003eAgni, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Latino Book Review, Mississippi Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Quarterly West, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTriquarterly\u003c\/i\u003e among other places. She is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize, Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, and the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award. For her body of work she has received the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami where she is an Associate Professor of English and the Gabelli Senior Scholar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCris Mazza\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eYet to Come\u003c\/i\u003e (BlazeVox Books). Mazza has eighteen other titles of fiction and literary nonfiction including \u003ci\u003eCharlatan: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicling twenty years of short-fiction publications; \u003ci\u003eSomething Wrong With Her\u003c\/i\u003e, a real-time memoir; her first novel \u003ci\u003eHow to Leave a Country\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction; and the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eIs It Sexual Harassment Yet?\u003c\/i\u003e In the mid-90s Mazza edited the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eChickLit\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. She is a native of Southern California and is a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberta Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e is a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote and produced many television game shows including \u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFamily Feud\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Legends of the Hidden Temple.\u003c\/i\u003e Her short fiction has appeared in small magazines including \u003ci\u003eChicago Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a finalist for the Bakeless Prize for her novel, \u003ci\u003eA Romantic Husband\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e's latest story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Habit of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2018. The critic Michael Schaub wrote: \"There's not a story in the book that's less than great; it's a stunningly beautiful collection by a writer working at the top of her game.\" Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Little Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e called \"a brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching examination of American male privilege and rape culture,\" was published in 2015. She is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Peerless Four\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Vacant Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2011 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. Her story collection, \u003ci\u003eDrift\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the California Book Award and the Story Prize and was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in South Pasadena, California with her family. She is an affiliate faculty member at Antioch University Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenny Shank\u003c\/b\u003e's short story collection, \u003ci\u003eMixed Company\u003c\/i\u003e, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize, and her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Ringer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the High Plains Book Award and was a finalist for the MPIBA Reading the West award. Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, Poets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Onion A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories have been listed among the \"Notable Essays of the Year\" in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays \u003c\/i\u003eand have received \"Special Mention\" in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She has been a Mullin Scholar in Writing at the University of Southern California and is on the faculty of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver. She has also published over a thousand book reviews and author interviews in such places as the \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine Sneed\u003c\/b\u003e's books are the novels \u003ci\u003eParis, He Said \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLittle Known Facts\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collections \u003ci\u003ePortraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Virginity of Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fifth book, \u003ci\u003ePlease Be Advised: A Novel in Memos\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from 7.13 Books. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other periodicals. She has received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, among other honors. She teaches for the MFA programs at Northwestern University and Regis University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Swearingen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Walk on Water and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the New American Press Fiction Prize and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"New \u0026amp; Noteworthy\" selection. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOff Assignment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction, she lives in Chicago and teaches in Cornell College's low-residency MFA program. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Umminger\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the internationally published novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches English and creative writing at the University of West Georgia. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West, Gulf Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGawker\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and she has won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for short fiction from \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e. She was the fourth female president of \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and is now (also) a retreat leader who recently completed her spiritual director studies at Loyola University-Chicago. 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