Danielle Evans's work has appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Callaloo, and Phoebe. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008 and are forthcoming in New Stories from the South and The Best American Short Stories 2010. Her short story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, will be published by Riverhead books in September; she is currently at work on a novel entitled The Empire Has No Clothes. She teaches fiction at American University in Washington, DC.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell ('64). For more information, please see www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp.