Cyn­thia Drew teach­es Cre­ative Writ­ing at UNC-Asheville’s Reuter Cen­ter and her­award-win­ning short sto­ries have appeared in numer­ous lit­er­ary jour­nal­sand antholo­gies. She worked for sev­er­al years in New York City’s gar­ment­dis­trict. This is her first novel.