Katherine Vaz, a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard, Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, and a National Endowment for the Arts recipient, has published two novels, SAUDADE and MARIANA, which appeared in six languages and was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top Thirty International Books of 1998. Her collection FADO & OTHER STORIES won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and OUR LADY OF THE ARTICHOKES won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. THE LOVE LIFE OF AN ASSISTANT ANIMATOR & OTHER STORIES is forthcoming in 2017. She has published many short stories, including some in anthologies for children, and lives in New York City with her husband, the editor, writer, and TV producer Christopher Cerf. Presented to celebrate International Women's Month.