Nancy Reisman earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her stories have appeared in Lilith, Glimmer Train, and American Fiction. She was the winner of the 1996 Raymond Carver Award.