Joanna Scott is the author of seven novels, including Sideshow, Tourmaline, Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and Various Antidotes, a collection of short fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Esquire, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and other journals. Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.