Jennifer Pashley was raised in Syracuse New York by a virtuoso accordion player and cabinet maker. Author of the story collections States (Lewis-Clark, 2007) and The Conjurer (Standing Stone Books, 2013), her stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, PANK, Smokelong Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and others. She has been awarded the MR Prize for Fiction, the Red Hen Prize for Fiction, and Carve Magazine Esoteric Award for LGBT writing. Her latest novel is The Scamp (Tin House, 2015).