Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and LIE and Before My Eyes, young adult novels, from St. Martin’s Press. The winner of the 2018 Writer magazine story award and the 2021 Adrift story award from Driftwood Press, she is also the fiction editor of the anthology This Is What America Looks Like: poetry and fiction from DC, Maryland, and Virginia and co-editor of the literary journal WWPH Writes. Her creative work has appeared in SmokeLong, Ploughshares, Bethesda Magazine, Brevity, Gargoyle, the Grace & Gravity series and more. In 2011, she earned an MFA in Fiction from The City College of New York. Find her often at Twitter @cabockwrites.