Robert Olen Butler is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Holt, 1992), the title story of which originally appeared in VQR. His most recent books include From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Grove, 2005) and Severance (Chronicle, 2006).

Also In VQR

• The Handwriting on the Wall
• Fairy Tale
• Five Beheadings

Also By This Author

• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories