Ali­cia Oltuski’s Pre­cious Objects is a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er Great NewWrit­ers selec­tion. Her work has appeared or is forth­com­ing on NPR’sBerlin Sto­ries, in the Finan­cial Times, W, The Faster Times, and others.She holds an MFA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, where she received a David­Berg Foun­da­tion Fel­low­ship, and a BA and MA from Uni­ver­si­ty ofPenn­syl­va­nia. She taught writ­ing at Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts, and was aread­er at The Paris Review.