Margaret Luongo is the author of two story collections, If the Heart is Lean and History of Art, both from LSU Press. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, the Cincinnati Review, Granta, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and other publications. Recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, the Hawthornden Fellowship and an Ohio Arts Council grant, she teaches creative writing and contemporary fiction at Miami University in Ohio, where she lives with her husband, artist Billy Simms.