Evelyn Shefner was born in Chicago, and studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, but for years her home has been New York City, where she lives with her husband. She has written educational brochures, and edited medical texts and trade journals. Her short stories have appeared in Hudson Review, Colorado Quarterly, Mississippi Review, in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, and The Things That Divide US, an anthology from Seal Press. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo, and received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for her fiction in 1979.

Evelyn Shefner was born in Chicago, and studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, but for years her home has been New York City, where she lives with her husband. She has written educational brochures, and edited medical texts and trade journals. Her short stories have appeared in Hudson Review, Colorado Quarterly, Mississippi Review, in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, and The Things That Divide US, an anthology from Seal Press. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo, and received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for her fiction in 1979.

Evelyn Shefner was born in Chicago, and studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, but for years her home has been New York City, where she lives with her husband. She has written educational brochures, and edited medical texts and trade journals. Her short stories have appeared in Hudson Review, Colorado Quarterly, Mississippi Review, in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, and The Things That Divide US, an anthology from Seal Press. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo, and received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for her fiction in 1979.