Brittany Perham is the author of The Curiosities (Parlor Press, 2012). She holds degrees from Tufts University and from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her recent work may be found in TriQuarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Lo-Ball, Linebreak, Drunken Boat and elsewhere. Before moving to San Francisco, she lived in Washington, D.C., where she taught literature and creative writing at James Madison University. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from 2009-2011.