Hei­di Pit­lor is the author of the nov­els The Birth­days and The Day­light Mar­riage. She has been the series edi­tor of The Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries since 2007 and the edi­to­r­i­al direc­tor of Plymp­ton, a lit­er­ary stu­dio. Her writ­ing has been pub­lished in Ploughshares, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Huff­in­g­ton Post, and the antholo­gies It Occurs to Me That I Am Amer­i­ca: New Sto­ries and Art and Labor Day: True Birth Sto­ries by Today’s Best Women Writ­ers. She lives out­side of Boston.