Pamela Painter is the award-winning author of five story collections, and co-author, with Anne Bernays, of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have been published in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Five Points, and ThreePennyReview, among others, and in numerous anthologies. Her stories appear on the YouTube channel, CRONOGEO, and have been staged by WordTheatre in Los Angeles, London and New York. Painter’s newest collection is Fabrications: New and Selected Stories.