Michelle Richmond is the internationally bestselling author of two award-winning story collections and four novels, including The Year of Fog. Her new novel, Golden State, and her new story collection, Hum, were just published in February. She has taught in the MFA programs in creative writing at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts, and has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary's College of Moraga. She recently held the Catherine Julie Cunningham Chair at Notre Dame de Namur University. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Oxford American, The Believer, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, The Telegraph, and elsewhere. Richmond serves on the board of the Authors' Guild and is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press. Visit her online at http://michellerichmond.com.