Winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction, Joan Frank's second story collection, In Envy Country, explores the uncertainties and triumphs of women and men in and out of love and marriage, at varying ages and stages of contemporary American life. By turns wry, pained, and amused, In Envy Country investigates those small, complex truths that gain clarity with time and distance. Frank, whose earlier books have been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly, sets these stories in Paris, California, and Spain.

Joan Frank is the author of two novels, Miss Kansas City, which won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award, and The Great Far Away, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction, as well as a story collection, Boys Keep Being Born, a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Award. Frank's earlier books have been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. She lives in Northern California.