Ann Beattie is the author of seven novels, nine short story collections, and a novella, includingDistortions, Secrets and Surprises, The Burning House, Perfect Recall, Falling in Place, Picturing Will, Another You, and The Doctor’s House. Her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, was made into a feature film. Her 2011 collection, The New Yorker Stories, gathered forty-eight stories that were originally published in The New Yorker magazine. Her latest collection, The State We’re In: Maine Stories, was released last August. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. Formerly the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (emerita), she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.