Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers