Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections
Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and
Don’t Cry, and the novels
Two Girls, Fat and Thin and
Veronica, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and
The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in New York.
