Leopoldine Core was born and raised in New York’s East Village and graduated from Hunter College. She is the author of the poetry collection Veronica Bench and the story collection When Watched, which won a Whiting Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Joyland, Open City, PEN America, Apology Magazine and The Best American Short Stories, among others. She lives in New York.