Jane Delury is the author of The Balcony (Little, Brown) which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Hedge. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program and directs the bachelor of arts in English. Originally from Sacramento, California, she now lives in Baltimore with her family.