Little Book of Days
Nona Caspers lives in San Francisco with her partner, little dog Edgar, and cat Marie.  She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. Her book of stories Heavier Than Air (University of Massachusetts Press) won the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her stories have been published in journals and anthologies such as the Iowa Review, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Voyages Out 2 (Seal Press), Women on Women (Plume), and the Hers series (Faber and Faber). Her work has been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Iowa Review Fiction Award, Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant and Award and LAMBDA nomination. Little Book of Days started as a project to track her days, which she did for four hundred days.  She teaches an MFA Dailiness course at San Francisco State University.  www.nonacaspers.com