Meg Little Reilly is the author of the novels THE MISFORTUNES OF FAMILY, EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS, and WE ARE UNPREPARED, which has been translated into several languages. Her fourth book HOW TO BE ALIVE was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2022 Big Moose Prize and she was a short story finalist for the Bellingham Review 2022 Tobias Wolff Award. Her essays and poetry have appeared in McSweeney's, Literary Hub, San Pedro River Review, Sojourners, Politico, Times Higher Education, and public radio stations around the country.