About the Author

Carolyn Abram is a writer. She was the first user of Facebook at Stanford in 2004 and worked for Facebook from 2006–2009. She has used Facebook every day for most of her adult life, acquiring 767 Facebook friends and 971 tagged photos. Despite that, she managed to receive a BA from Stanford ('06) and an MFA from California College of the Arts ('12). Her short fiction has appeared in New California Writing 2013 and Switchback. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband, dog, and baby.

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