Assumed identities, Russian mail-order brides, pie theft, lost (and found) cleavers, coworkers who commit murder, the sudden ballooning of breasts, conversations with the (surprisingly opinionated) vegetables in a restaurant's walk-in cooler: in stories sharply funny and deeply poignant, situations that delight and discomfit, Scott explores "the complicated, or simple, ways in which we settle."

Jenn Scott hails from Pennsylvania and received her MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, she has waited on countless tables and has published stories in such journals as Gettysburg Review, Santa Monica Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Fiction. She lives and writes and eats and drinks in Oakland, California, with four cats and a husband. Currently, she is revising a novel spanning nearly eighty years and set in the Rockridge district of Oakland.