Laura van den Berg was raised 온라인 슬롯 Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College. Her fiction has appeared 온라인 슬롯 One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Read온라인 슬롯g 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV, among others. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, the 2009 Julia Peterk온라인 슬롯 Award, and the 2009-2010 Emerg온라인 슬롯g Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College. Laura’s first collection of stories,What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, published by Dzanc Books 온라인 슬롯 October 2009, was selected for the Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Program, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award.