The Author

Carole Burns is the host of "Off the Page" on washingtonpost.com. Her fiction has been published in literary journals and magazines such as Other Voices and Washingtonian, and her nonfiction has been published in the Washington Post and the New York Times. Awards include an Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Mary Roberts Rinehart National Award in Fiction, and she has been a fellow at The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

A senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Winchester in England, she is currently working on her first novel.