Love in the Time of Time's Up - Paperback

by Christine Sneed (Editor)

With pathos and insight, each of the 16 accomplished authors--among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in Love in the Time of Time's Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time's Up.

From the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanaugh and the tragicomic travails of a woman swiping right on Tinder in order to dispense advice to men whose profiles she finds lacking, these stories offer a blend of humor and horror, victory and heartache, righteous anger and rueful recrimination. It's a collection that's sure to leave a mark on readers' minds--and earn a place in their hearts.

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Karen E. Bender is the author of the story collection Refund, The New Order, and The Words of Dr. L . Her novels are Like Normal People, a LA Times bestseller and WaPo Best Book of the Year, and A Town of Empty Rooms. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Guernica, and others. Her work has been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and have won three Pushcart prizes.

May-lee Chai is the author of 11 books, including a short story collection Tomorrow in Shanghai; the memoir Hapa Girl; her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin; and Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the New England Review, Paris Review Online, Missouri Review, Seventeen, Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, SF Chronicle, and LA Times. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at SFSU.

Elizabeth Crane is the author of 2 novels - We Only Know So Much, which has been adapted for film, and The History of Great Things, 4 collections of short stories, including Turf, and a memoir, This Story Will Change. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. She teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program.

Rebecca Entel is the author of novel, Fingerprints of Previous Owners. Her short stories and essays have been published in such journals as Catapult, Guernica, Hobart, Cleaver, Jellyfish Review, Joyland, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, where she teaches courses in creative writing, 19th-century U.S. literature, African-American literature, Caribbean literature, and the literature of social justice, and is the Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts. She mentors in PEN America's Prison Writing Program and has taught fiction workshops for Catapult. A graduate of the UPenn and the Univ. of Wisconsin, she currently lives in Iowa City.

Gina Frangellois the author of 4 books of fiction, including A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting, and a memoir Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason. She brings more than two decades of experience as an editor, having founded both the independent press Other Voices Books and the fiction section of the popular online literary community The Nervous Breakdown. She has also served as the Sunday editor for The Rumpus, and as the faculty editor for both TriQuarterly Online and The Coachella Review. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in such venues as Salon, the LA Times, Ploughshares, the Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Dame, and in many other magazines and anthologies, as well as having a column on the Psychology Today blog

Joan Frank is the author of The Outlook for Earthlings, Where You're All Going: Four Novellas, Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Placel, All the News I Need, and the essay collection, Because You Have To: A Writing Life. She has taught creative writing at SFSU and reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for The WaPoand Boston Globe. She lives in Northern California.

Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of Glory Days and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in more than 40 literary journals and anthologies, among them storySouth, Shenandoah, Notre Dame Review, and The Millions. She is the founder of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, where she teaches classes on the art and craft of writing.

Lynn Freed's books include 7 novels, a collection of stories and 2 collections of essays. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, among numerous others. Having grown up in South Africa, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student at Columbia Univ., where she received an MA and PhD in English Literature. She is Professor Emerita of English at the UCDavis, and lives in Northern California.

Amina Gautier is the author of 3 short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things.. More than 130 of her stories have been published, appearing in Agni, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Latino Book Review, Mississippi Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Quarterly West, Southern Review, and Triquarterly among other places. She teaches in the MFA program at the Univ. of Miami where she is an Associate Prof. of English and the Gabelli Senior Scholar.

Cris Mazza has over 18 titles of fiction and literary nonfiction including Yet to Come; Charlatan: New and Selected Stories; Something Wrong With Her; How to Leave a Country, and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?. In the mid-90s Mazza edited the groundbreaking ChickLit anthologies. She is a native of Southern California and is a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the Univ. of IL at Chicago.

Roberta Montgomery is the author of A Romantic Husband, and a former editor at The Atlantic. She wrote and produced many television game shows including Liars, Family Feud, and The Legends of the Hidden Temple. Her short fiction has appeared in small magazines including Chicago Quarterly Review.

Victoria Patterson is the author of The Secret Habit of Sorrow, The Little Brother, The Peerless Four, This Vacant Paradise, and Drift. She lives in South Pasadena, CA with her family. She is an affiliate faculty member at Antioch Univ. LA.

Jenny Shank is the author ofMixed Company, and The Ringer. Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, WaPo, LA Times, The Guardian, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, Poets & Writers Magazine and The Onion A.V. Club. She has been a Mullin Scholar in Writing at the USC and is on the faculty of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Mile High MFA at Regis Univ. in Denver. She has also published over a 1,000 book reviews and author interviews in such places as the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Dallas Morning News.

Christine Sneed's books are the novels Paris, He Said , Little Known Facts and Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, the NYT, O Magazine, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, New Stories from the Midwest, Glimmer Train, and many other periodicals. She teaches for the MFA programs at Northwestern Univ. and Regis Univ.

Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and teaches in Cornell College's low-residency MFA program.

Alison Umminger is the author of the internationally published novel American Girls, and teaches English and creative writing at the Univ. of West GA. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Gawker, among others. She was the 4th female president of The Harvard Lampoon, and is now (also) a retreat leader who recently completed her spiritual director studies at Loyola Univ.-Chicago. While the distance between monastery and Lampoon may seem vast--there are more similarities than one might think.