Dylan Landis is the author of two previous works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors' Choice; and the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This. Her work has appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.