Jedediah Berry is the author of a novel, The Manual of Detection (Penguin Press, 2009). His short stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Fairy Tale Review, and numerous other journals, and in anthologies including Best American Fantasy 2 (eds. VanderMeer, VanderMeer, and Cheney), Best New American Voices 2008 (eds. Kulka, Danford, and Bausch), Salon Fantastique (eds. Datlow and Windling), and Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (eds. Datlow and Windling). He lives in Northampton, MA, and serves as assistant editor of Small Beer Press.