Wendy J. Fox is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel If the Ice Had Held, a LitHub best pick in audio, and the recent short-story collection What If We Were Somewhere Else, which won the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction and earned a star for excellence in the genre of short stories from Booklist. She has written for national publications like The Rumpus, Catapult, Electric Literature, Self, Business Insider, The Muse, and Ms., and her work has appeared in literary magazines including Washington Square, Euphony, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She writes a biannual list for Buzzfeed focusing on the great works of small presses.