Edith Pearlman has published more than 250 works of short fiction and short non-fiction in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and on-line publications.  Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Collection, New Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize Collection - Best of the Small Presses.   

Her first collection of stories, Vaquita, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature. Her second, Love Among The Greats won the Spokane Annual Fiction Prize. Her third collection, How to Fall won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.  Her fourth collection, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories, was published in January 2011. 

Pearlman's short essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, Yankee Magazine and Ascent. Her travel writing - about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo - has been published in the The New York Times and elsewhere. However she is a New Englander by birth and preference. She grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and now lives with her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts. She has two grown children and a grandson.

"My only challenge," acknowledges Ann Patchett in her charming introduction to "Binocular Vision," describing the experience of reading one of Pearlman's stories in public, "was to keep from interrupting myself as I read. So often I wanted to stop and say to the audience, 'Did you hear that? Do you understand how good this is?'" Patchett is not alone. As I made my way through "Binocular Vision," I kept stopping to read passages aloud to my wife, my friends, anyone who would listen. "Did you hear that?" I would ask them. "Do you understand how good this is?"  

- Los Angeles Times