Amy Root Clements writes about the quest for empathy in humans who are tempted to abandon their humanity. She lived in New York for several years, earning an MFA in creative writing from The New School, and she now teaches in the writing program at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her husband Andrew and a cat named Sunny. Her fiction has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, South Carolina Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and other publications. She is also the author of The Art of Prestige, a history of the early years at the publishing house founded by Blanche and Alfred Knopf.