Alethea Black's recent memoir (You’ve Been So Lucky Already, Little A, 2018) was reviewed by The New York Times. Her short story collection (I Knew You’d Be Lovely, Broadway, 2011) was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover program. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Narrative Magazine, and many others, and has been shortlisted for The Best American Short Stories and won the Arts & Letters prize. Born in Boston, she graduated from Harvard in 1991 and lives in Los Angeles.