Olivia Clare Friedman is the author of the novel Here Lies, the story collection Disasters in the First World, and the poetry collection The 26-Hour Day. An Arm Fixed to a Wing, a book of poems, is forthcoming in the spring. She has received an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Southern Review, and the Scholar, among other publications.