Nan­cy Ludmerer’s sto­ries, includ­ing many prizewin­ners, appear in Keny­on Review, Carve, Mas­ters Review, and oth­er venues. Her sto­ry The Lone­li­ness Cure (his­tor­i­cal fic­tion set in Ukraine) won Ori­son Books’ 2021 Best Spir­i­tu­al Lit­er­a­ture Prize. Her debut col­lec­tion, Col­lat­er­al Dam­age: 48 Sto­ries (Snake Nation Press 2022), received SNP’s annu­al fic­tion prize. She prac­ticed law in NYC before turn­ing to fic­tion full-time.