Hillery Hugg is a writer and museum editor based in Austin, Texas. She received an MA in English Literature from UT Austin, where she was also a Michener Fellow, and she is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University. Her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, 3rd Bed, The American Reader, Caketrain, NANO Fiction, The Lifted Brow, and The Vassar Review, and her non-fiction has been published in Guernica and The Believer.