Hindsight

Pamela Painter is the author of three story collections, Wouldn't You Like to Know, Getting to Know the Weather, which won the GLCA Award for First Fiction, and The Long and Short of It. She is also the co-author of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in Atlantic, Five Points, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and SmokeLong Quarterly among others and in numerous anthologies. She has received a grant from the NEA, and has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review’s The John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter lives in Boston and teaches at Emerson College.