Becky Hagenston is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals, as well as in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1996). Her collection of stories, A Gram of Mars (1998), won Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. She is currently at work on a novel and another collection of stories.