Cris Mazza is the author of fifteen books, including ten novels, four collections of stories and a collection of personal essays. Many of her books were published by Fiction Collective Two, including two anthologies she co-edited, Chick-Lit: Post-Feminist Fiction and Chick-Lit 2. Her most recent book is Trickle-Down Timeline, a collection of stories set in the US in the 1980s. Her next book, Various Men Who Knew Us As Girls, will appear in 2010 from Emergency Press. An NEA fellow who has taught at several universities, Cris Mazza is presently a professor in and director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.