Alice Kaltman is the author of two story collections and three novels. Upcoming are a graphic memoir, Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes, from Word West Press in September 2024, and Mother and Daughter Sit for a Portrait, a historical fiction novella, from WTAW Press in early 2025. Alice’s work has been nominated for Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fiction, and the Pushcart Prize, and was a Wigleaf Top 50 in 2024. Alice splits her time between Brooklyn and Montauk, NY where she lives, surfs, and swims with her husband the sculptor Daniel Wiener and Ollie the Wonder Dog.