LISA GRALEY is the author of The Current That Carries, which received the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is an associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she holds the Friends of Humanities/LEQSF Regents Professorship in the Humanities. She is the author of the book Box of Blue Horses, which won the 2012 Gival Press Poetry Award. She was awarded an ATLAS (Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) sabbatical in 2009-10 by the Louisiana Board of Regents. Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, the Georgia Review, and the McNeese Review.