Wendi Kaufman's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Fiction, and Other Voices, and her stories have been anthologized in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, Elements of Literature, and Faultlines: Stories of Divorce. She received a literary fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, was the winner of a Mary Roberts Rhinehart award for short fiction, and was named a Breadloaf Scholar in Fiction. A frequent contributor to The Washington Post and The Washingtonian, Kaufman graduated from George Mason University's MFA program in Creative Writing. Helen on 86th Street and Other Stories, published posthumously, is her first full-length collection.