Terena Elizabeth Bell has published in The Atlantic, Playboy, The Yale Review, Juked, and others. Her novel was excerpted by Malarkey Books, and her short stories have won grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Sinking Fork, Kentucky, she lives in Manhattan, where she edits Writing Through the Classics, a series of classic novels annotated with prompts and notes on fiction craft.