Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, and LIE and Before My Eyes, young adult novels from St. Martin's Press. The winner of the Writer magazine story award and the Adrift story award from Driftwood Press, her creative work has also recently appeared in SmokeLong, Brevity, Gargoyle, Grace & Gravity: DC Women Writers, and more. She is the co-president/editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a nonprofit literary press based in Washington DC. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she studied creative writing with Raymond Carver, and holds an MFA in Fiction from the City University of New York. She lives in Maryland with her family and is at work on a novel.