Lori O’Dea is a fiction writer, literary critic, and gallerist living in Chicago and Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She is the author of the literary novella Little Cavendish. Her work appears in The Massachusetts Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review, LIBER, Bridge, Rain Taxi, and other publications. She is a graduate of St. John’s College, Santa Fe and holds an M.A. in English literature and creative writing from City College of New York, where she twice received the Stark Short Fiction Prize and was a nominee for Best New American Voices.