{"product_id":"love-in-the-time-of-times-up-paperback","title":"Love in the Time of Time's Up - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Sneed\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith pathos and insight, each of the 16 accomplished authors--among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Time's Up\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time's Up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanaugh and the tragicomic travails of a woman swiping right on Tinder in order to dispense advice to men whose profiles she finds lacking, these stories offer a blend of humor and horror, victory and heartache, righteous anger and rueful recrimination. It's a collection that's sure to leave a mark on readers' minds--and earn a place in their hearts. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\/h3\u0026gt;\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren E. Bender\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eRefund\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Order\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Words of Dr. L \u003c\/i\u003e. Her novels are \u003ci\u003eLike Normal People\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and \u003ci\u003eWaPo \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eA Town of Empty Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Guernica\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Her work has been reprinted in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best\u003c\/i\u003e, and have won three Pushcart prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay-lee Chai \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 11 books, including a short story collection \u003ci\u003eTomorrow in Shanghai;\u003c\/i\u003e the memoir \u003cem\u003eHapa Girl\u003c\/em\u003e; her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Ba Jin\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSF Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at SFSU. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Crane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of 2 novels -  \u003ci\u003eWe Only Know So Much\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been adapted for film\u003ci\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe History of Great Things\u003c\/i\u003e, 4 collections of short stories, including \u003ci\u003eTurf\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThis Story Will Change\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Entel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of novel, \u003ci\u003eFingerprints of Previous Owners\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short stories and essays have been published in such journals as \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHobart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCleaver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJellyfish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, where she teaches courses in creative writing, 19th-century U.S. literature, African-American literature, Caribbean literature, and the literature of social justice, and is the Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts. She mentors in PEN America's Prison Writing Program and has taught fiction workshops for \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the UPenn and the Univ. of Wisconsin, she currently lives in Iowa City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGina Frangello\u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 4 books of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eA Life in Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvery Kind of Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir \u003ci\u003eBlow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason\u003c\/i\u003e. She brings more than two decades of experience as an editor, having founded both the independent press Other Voices Books and the fiction section of the popular online literary community The Nervous Breakdown. She has also served as the Sunday editor for The Rumpus, and as the faculty editor for both \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e Online and \u003ci\u003eThe Coachella Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in such venues as \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDame\u003c\/i\u003e, and in many other magazines and anthologies, as well as having a column on the \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e blog\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Outlook for Earthlings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhere You're All Going: Four Novellas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTry to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place\u003c\/i\u003el, \u003ci\u003eAll the News I Need\u003c\/i\u003e, and the essay collection, \u003ci\u003eBecause You Have To: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught creative writing at SFSU and reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for \u003ci\u003eThe WaPo\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Northern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Fraterrigo\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGlory Days \u003c\/i\u003eand the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Pregnancy\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in more than 40 literary journals and anthologies, among them \u003ci\u003estorySouth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the founder of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, where she teaches classes on the art and craft of writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Freed\u003c\/b\u003e's books include 7 novels, a collection of stories and 2 collections of essays. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, among numerous others. Having grown up in South Africa, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student at Columbia Univ., where she received an MA and PhD in English Literature. She is Professor Emerita of English at the UCDavis, and lives in Northern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmina Gautier\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of 3 short story collections: \u003ci\u003eAt-Risk, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNow We Will Be Happy, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Loss of All Lost Things.\u003c\/i\u003e. More than 130 of her stories have been published, appearing in \u003ci\u003eAgni, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Latino Book Review, Mississippi Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Quarterly West, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTriquarterly\u003c\/i\u003e among other places. She teaches in the MFA program at the Univ. of Miami where she is an Associate Prof. of English and the Gabelli Senior Scholar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCris Mazza\u003c\/b\u003e has over 18 titles of fiction and literary nonfiction including \u003ci\u003eYet to Come\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCharlatan: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSomething Wrong With Her\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHow to Leave a Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIs It Sexual Harassment Yet?\u003c\/i\u003e. In the mid-90s Mazza edited the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eChickLit\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. She is a native of Southern California and is a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the Univ. of IL at Chicago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberta Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Romantic Husband\u003c\/i\u003e, and a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She wrote and produced many television game shows including \u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFamily Feud\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Legends of the Hidden Temple.\u003c\/i\u003e Her short fiction has appeared in small magazines including \u003ci\u003eChicago Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Habit of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Peerless Four\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Vacant Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDrift\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in South Pasadena, CA with her family. She is an affiliate faculty member at Antioch Univ. LA. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenny Shank\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003eMixed Company\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ringer\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, WaPo, LA Times, The Guardian, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, Poets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Onion A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been a Mullin Scholar in Writing at the USC and is on the faculty of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Mile High MFA at Regis Univ. in Denver. She has also published over a 1,000 book reviews and author interviews in such places as the \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine Sneed\u003c\/b\u003e's books are the novels \u003ci\u003eParis, He Said \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Known Facts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlease Be Advised: A Novel in Memos\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collections \u003ci\u003ePortraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Virginity of Famous Men\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO. 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She lives in Chicago and teaches in Cornell College's low-residency MFA program. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Umminger\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the internationally published novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches English and creative writing at the Univ. of West GA. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West, Gulf Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGawker\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She was the 4th female president of \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and is now (also) a retreat leader who recently completed her spiritual director studies at Loyola Univ.-Chicago. 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