Rebecca Godwin is author of two novels, Keeper of the House and Private Parts. Over two decades of work at Bennington College, she served as writer for the college, taught undergraduate writing and literature, and founded and edited plain china. Her stories and essays have appeared in Paris Review, The Sun, Oxford American’s Best of the South issue, and elsewhere, and she has received MacDowell and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. She is currently at work on a new novel.