Carol Roh Spaulding received the 2022 Flannery O’Conner Award for the Short Story from University of Georgia Press, selected by Lori Ostlund. Her stories and essays have appeared in several publications including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and December magazine. Awards for her work include a Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays 2019 Notable Mention, and the Eludia prize from Hidden River Arts for her forthcoming novel, Helen Button (Sowilo Press). A California native and grand-daughter of Korean immigrants, she teaches at Drake University in Des Moines and lives in rural Iowa with her family.