Janice Deal is the author of two novels (The Blue Door and The Sound of Rabbits) and two story collections (Strange Attractors: the Ephrem Stories and The Decline of Pigeons). The recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award for prose, Janice has won The Moth Short Story Prize and the Cagibi Macaron Prize. Her books have also been finalists for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize, and the Many Voices Project annual competition. She lives with her husband in the Chicago area.