Cara Diaconoff has published a collection of stories, Unmarriageable Daughters; another, The Folktale Collector’s Daughter, is forthcoming in Fall 2026. She is also the author of two novels: I’ll Be a Stranger to You, which won first prize in a Utah Arts Council competition, and Marian Hall, which is seeking a publisher. Her stories and essays have appeared individually in Isele, Indiana Review, Other Voices, The Adirondack Review, descant, and elsewhere. She has taught writing and literature at Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, and Whitman College and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Russia, and she has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Norman Mailer Center. She lives in Seattle, where she teaches creative writing and literature at Bellevue College.