Carolyn Cooke’s Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , and was collected in The Bostons, which won the PEN/Bingham award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway. She teaches in the MFA writing program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.