Piper Lane graduated with an MFA from the University of Washington, and she is currently a Made at Hugo House Fellow for 2019-2020 (Seattle, WA). This piece was chosen as a finalist for the Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff fiction contest and the Katherine Anne Porter prize last spring. She also won the Eugene Van Buren award and the David Guterson outstanding thesis award at UW. This is her first major publication.