Marianne Villanueva is the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language.  Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in Manila Noir, edited by Jessica Hagedorn.  She has been shortlisted for the O. Henry Literature Prize and nominated for the Pushcart. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is completing her first novel.