Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior Because They Wanted To
(nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry the novels The Mare Veronica (nominated
for the National Book Award) and Two Girls Fat and Thin and a collection of essays Somebody
With A Little Hammer. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker Harper's
Artforum and Granta among many other journals as well as in The Best American Short Stories
and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
