AJ Stern has written for the New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Paste, among others. Her fiction has been published in many literary journals, among them: Swink, St. Ann's Review, Salt Hill, Fivechapters.com, and Joyland.ca. She's held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell where she was the Philip Morris Company Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.