Audrey Petty is a writer and educator. Her stories have been published in such journals as African American Review, Story Quarterly, Callaloo, and The Massachusetts Review. Her poetry has been featured in Crab Orchard Review and Cimarron Review, and her essays have appeared in The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook, Saveur, ColorLines, The Southern Review, Oxford American, Gravy, and the Best Food Writing anthology. She is the editor of High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing (Voice of Witness/McSweeney's) and co-editor of The Long Term (Haymarket Press).