Mary Otis's short story collection, Yes, Yes, Cherries, was published by Tin House Books in 2007. She has also been published in Best New American Voices anthology (Harcourt), Los Angeles Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Literary Journal, and Santa Monica Review. Her work has recently been anthologized in Tales of Sex and Love (Tin House) and Woof: Writers On Dogs (Viking). She was a runner-up in the Zoetrope, Poets and Writers Magazine, and Swink short story contests. Her story "Pilgrim Girl" received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention,, and her story "Unstruck" received a special mention in Best American Short Stories 2006. She is a recipient of the 2007 Walter E. Dakin Fiction Fellowship. Mary attended Bennington College and has taught creative writing in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Originally from the Boston area, she lives in Los Angeles. Ms. Otis is part of the core faculty of UCR-Palm Desert’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.