A Guide to Being Born - Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Awayland , Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty , and No One Is Here Except All of Us . Her work has been published in The New Yorker , One Story , The Paris Review Daily , Best American Fantasy , and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading . She has been longlisted for The Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions award and the Pushcart Prize.