Deirdre McNamer is the author of the novels Rima in the Weeds (1991), One Sweet Quarrel (1994), My Russian (1999), andRed Rover (2007), which was named a Best Book of 2007 by Artforum, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.  Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Doubletake, and elsewhere.