Mary Rechner is the author of the story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women named to the long list for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the novella The Opposite of Wow. Her fiction has appeared in the Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and Washington Square, and her criticism and essays have appeared in The Believer, Oregon Humanities, Propeller, and the Oregonian.