Jennifer Terk Chance, Julia Ellis, Emily Freed, Brian Garrick, Sarah Grafman, Helen Kim, Shanna Pittman-Frank, Michelle Prats, Dean Vuletic and David Washburn, for being there from the very beginning.
My amazing and ever-growing family of Antells, Antopols, DuNours, Griers, Hirsches, Johnsons, Moskins, Silberlings and Tigays — I love you all more than you know.
Finally, my deepest thanks to Chanan Tigay, best reader and best friend.
Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. She is a recipient of the “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s This American Life and in many publications, including One Story, Ecotone, American Short Fiction, Esquire and Mississippi Review Prize Stories. The UnAmericans is her first book. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel. For more information, visit www.mollyantopol.com.