Cai Emmons is the author of several books of fiction: His Mother's Son, The Stylist, Weather Woman, Vanishing, and Sinking Islands, as well as the novels Livid and Unleashed, both forthcoming in 2022. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, a Nautilus Award, and finalist for the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize as well as the Narrative Magazine Fiction Prize, Emmons was also short-listed for the Sarton Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and stories have appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly, LitHub, Electric Literature, The LA Times, and Ms. Magazine. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, Emmons holds MFA degrees in film and fiction. Before turning to fiction Cai wrote for theater, film, and television. Two of her plays—Mergatroid and When Petulia Comes—were produced in New York theaters. She wrote for the TV show The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, and has optioned numerous feature-length screenplays. She has taught at several colleges and universities, mostly recently in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.