The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (23 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born and raised in northern California, Kathleen Alcott studied in southern California, lived in San Francisco, and presently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in
American Short Fiction
;
Slice
;
Explosion-Proof
;
The Rumpus.net
;
Rumpus Women
,
Volume 1
, an anthology of personal essays; and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her second novel, a work that traces the lives of four tenants of an apartment building in New York City.