Janet Kauffman was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and raised on a tobacco farm. She has published several collections of short stories, including Characters on the Loose (Graywolf Press), Obscene Gestures for Women (Alfred A. Knopf), and Places in the World a Woman Could Walk (Alfred A. Knopf). Her short novels, Collaborators (Alfred A. Knopf), The Body in Four Parts (Graywolf Press), and this book, Rot, complete the trilogy Flesh Made Word. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University.

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