Rebecca Barry is the bestselling author of Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Recipes for a Beautiful Life: A Memoir in Stories. Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Magazine, Seventeen, Real Simple, Food and Wine, Saveur, More, O, The Oprah Magazine, Hallmark, and The Best American Travel Writing 2003. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Tin House, Ecotone, The Mid-American Review, Best New American Voices 2005, and was shortlisted in Best American Short Stories 2000, 2004, and 2009. She is also a writing coach, cofounder of the magazine Fresh Dirt, and has an Etsy shop full of cats, mermaids, and rabbits she sculpts by hand.