Siobhan Adcock is the author of the novels The Completionist (Simon & Schuster) and The Barter (Dutton), and the humor books 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30 and Hipster Haiku (both Broadway Books). Her short stories, essays, and humor have appeared in McSweeney's, Ms. magazine, the Lascaux Review, Scientific American, TriQuarterly, Literary Hub, Salon, the Florida Review, The Massachusetts Review, and anthologized in Not Like I’m Jealous or Anything. She has served as an editor at Random House, and has taught at Cornell University, the Columbia Publishing Course, Voices from War, and the Auburn Federal Correctional Facility. She holds a BA and an MFA in Fiction Writing, both from Cornell University.