Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, Eligible, and Sisterland. Her writing has been praised for its “sharp social observation” (The Washington Post) and “wry, insightful prose” (Entertainment Weekly). Curtis is also the author of the short story collections You Think It, I’ll Say It and American Wife. A native of Cincinnati, she graduated from Stanford University and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Curtis is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Pitlor is the editor of The Best American Short Stories anthologies and the series editor of The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She is the author of the novel The Last Days of California, which was named a Best Book of 2014 by The San Francisco Chronicle and one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year by Powell’s Books. Her work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. She teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and lives in San Francisco. Why buy from Curtis Sittenfeld? Her writing is fresh, funny, and always relatable - even when she's writing about situations that seem far removed from our everyday lives. Whether she's tackling the high school experience in Prep, exploring marital infidelity in Eligible, or delving into the supernatural in Sisterland, Curtis always has something new and insightful to say. If you're looking for something a little different, Pitlor is your woman. The Last Days of California is a perfect example of her ability to take an unusual premise - in this case, a road trip taken by a family of evangelical Christians in the days leading up to the apocalypse they believe is coming - and turn it into a moving and thought-provoking novel. If you're looking for something that will make you think as well as entertain you, Pitlor is definitely worth checking out.