Anya Yurchyshyn is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Dead Parents and numerous works of short fiction. Called one of “the most interesting short-story writers working in English” in The New Yorker, her writing has appeared in Esquire, Granta, Oprah Magazine, and N+1, among many other places. She is also a frequent contributor to NOON; her story from NOON 2014, “The Director,” was included in Best Small Fictions of 2015. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.