Mary Terrier is a writer from Austin, Texas. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Pleiades. She’s taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Library Foundation in Austin, and elsewhere. She was a fiction fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, a Dobie Paisano Fellow sponsored the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the recipient of a Elizabeth George Foundation grant.