Nancy Au's full-length collection, SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES, (September 2019, Acre Books), was a finalist for the 2020 CLMP Book Award for Fiction, and one of ten books longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Fiction Collection. She won Redivider’s Blurred Genres Contest, The Vestal Review’s VERA Flash Fiction Prize, and her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions. She is co-founder of The Escapery (www.TheEscapery.org), and a faculty writing coach and lecturer at California State University Stanislaus.