Stephanie Reents is a narrative writer and teacher. She's the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Her new novel, We Loved to Run, is published by Hogarth/Penguin Random House. Her awards include two O. Henry Prizes for her short fiction, a Stegner Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship. Actual date is still pending.