SARA PRITCHARD is the author of the novel CRACKPOTS, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003, and the linked-story collection LATELY. Her stories and essays have been published in numerous literary journals, including GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, ARTS & LETTERS, TUSCULUM REVIEW, CHATTAHOOCHEE REVIEW, NORTHWEST REVIEW, BELLINGHAM REIVEW, and elsewhere. Sara's awards include the Bakeless Prize for Fiction in 2002 for CRACKPOTS, the Alexander Cappon Award for Fiction 2008, and a 2009 Pushcart Prize for her story "Two Studies in Entropy." Sara's new story collection, HELP WANTED: FEMALE, will be published by Etruscan Press in 2012/2013. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, and teaches in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MA/MFA Creative Writing Program in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
