Catherine Gammon is most recently the author of the story collection The Gunman and the Carnival (Baobab Press, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in literary magazines for many years, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Missouri Review, among them. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as from colonies including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and Djerassi. After growing up in Los Angeles, Catherine lived in Berkeley, and later in Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts before moving to New York, where she worked for The New York Review of Books. She left New York to join the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 and later returned to California for training and ordination at San Francisco Zen Center’s Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm. She lives in Pittsburgh, with a garden and a cat.