Elizabeth Cox is the author ofNight Talk, The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love,Familiar Ground, and the story collectionBargains in the Real World.She is an instructor at the Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars and teaches at Wofford College in South Carolina, where she shares the John Cobb Chair of the Humanities with her husband, C. Michael Curtis. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From the Hardcover edition.