KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM is the author of What We Do with the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of two other collections of short fiction, This Life She's Chosen and Swimming with Strangers. Her short fiction and essays have appeared widely in journals, including One Story, the American Scholar, Ploughshares, and North American Review. She is a recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and teaches high school English.

How rare is the writer who truly understands invisibility: the invisibility of being young and the very different sort that plagues those grown old; the fraught invisibility of motherhood and that of being a girl in this world who is disappearing from the inside out. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum sees these people, gives them form and substance through language that is graceful and nuanced, at times humorous, nearly always compassionate, often (enough) hopeful. A beautiful, deeply compelling collection.