Patricia Grace King, a finalist in Narrative’s Fall 2012 Story Contest, grew up in North Carolina and spent years in Spain and Guatemala. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in English from Emory University. Her chapbooks, The Death of Carrie Bradshaw and Rubia, won the Kore Press Short Fiction Contest and the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Contest, respectively. She is the 2013–2014 Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and lives in Chicago with her husband.