Lorrie Moore was born in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, and attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. Her work has appeared frequently in the
New Yorker and
Best American Short Stories. She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of three collections of short stories -
Self-Help,
Like Life and
Birds of America - and the novels
Anagrams and
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? She is also editor of
The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.