Nancy Au is a native of San Francisco currently residing in Oakland, California. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Anthropology, and is currently an MFA student at San Francisco State University. She has been published in the Mill Valley Library Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, and forthcoming in Word Riot. She was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, and was the runner-up for the 2014 Michael Rubin Book Award.