Nancy Wayson Dinan is a native Texan who lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in The Texas Observer, LitHub, The Paris Review Daily, and more. She earned her MFA from the Ohio State University in 2013 and her PhD from Texas Tech University in 2020. Her first novel, Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here (Bloomsbury) was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She currently directs the MFA program at Western Kentucky University.