Edith Pearlman’s most recent collection, Honeydew, was nominated for the National Book Award, and her previous collection, Binocular Vision, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize. Pearlman is the recipient of the 2011 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.