Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the short-story collection If the Sky Falls and the novel A Fine Place. His fiction has been published in Esquire, Zoetrope, Tin House, and elsewhere. He has received the Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and in the Bennington Writing Seminars.