Clare Beams's fiction has appeared in One Story, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, FiveChapters, and elsewhere, and has received special mention in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthology. She is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts fellow in prose and a 2014 tuition scholar at Bread Loaf. She lives with her husband and daughter in Pittsburgh, where she is at work on a novel.