Caitlin Hayes was born and raised in New Hampshire and now lives in Ithaca, NY, where she is working on a story collection and a novel. She has received fellowships from Syracuse University's MFA Program and Yaddo, and was an Olive B. O'Connor Fellow at Colgate University and a Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center. She is also the recipient of grants and scholarships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Barbara Deming Fund, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her stories have appeared in Ecotone, Epoch, New England Review, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review.