RITA CHANG-EPPIG‘s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Santa Monica Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021 (selected by Jesmyn Ward), and elsewhere. She received her MFA in fiction from New York University, and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation/Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers Grotto, and Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.