Jane McCafferty

is author of two novels, One Heart and First You Try Everything, both from HarperCollins, and two story collections, Director of The World (U of Pitt reissued by CMU press) and Thank You For the Music, from HarperCollins.  Her work has received an NEA, two Pushcart prizes, The Drue Heinz Award, a Book Sense award, and the Great Lakes New Writers award.  Her poems have recently appeared in Chatauqua Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Healing Muse.