Carrie Laben is the author of the novel A Hawk in the Woods and the forthcoming novella The Water Is Wide. Their work has appeared in such venues as Apex, The Dark, Electric Literature, Indiana Review, and Outlook Springs, winning the Shirley Jackson Award in Short Fiction and Duke University’s Documentary Essay Prize along the way. They’ve been a MacDowell Fellow and a resident at the Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. They hold an MFA from the University of Montana and live in Queens, where they are at work on their next novel.