Bryn Chancellor is an award-winning author and professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of the novel Sycamore, which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the short story collection When Are You Coming Home? Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Southern Review, and other publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is also the co-founder of the Arkansas Literary Festival.