Edith Pearlman’s fiction has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, three times in the O. Henry Prize Collection, twice in The Pushcart Prize Collection, and once in Best Short Stories from the South. She is the author of three story collections: Vaquita (1996), Love Among The Greats (2002), and How To Fall (2005). A fourth, Binocular Vision, will be published in 2010 by Lookout Books, and will include several stories from Ascent including “Capers”.