Lisa Norris is a professor of English at Central Washington University where she has taught since 2007. Previously, she was an instructor for 15 years at Virginia Tech. Her story collections are Toy Guns (Helicon Nine Press, 2000) and Women Who Sleep With Animals (SFASU Press, 2010), winners of the Willa Cather and Stephen F. Austin State University Fiction Prizes, respectively. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Shenandoah, Ascent, Fourth Genre, Terrain.Org., Bullets Into Bells, Gulf Stream, and others.