Caitlin Horrocks lives in Michigan by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Her debut short story collection, This Is Not Your City, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2011. Her stories and essays appear in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, and elsewhere. Her work has been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and has won awards from the Atlantic Monthly and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences.

She was formerly the 2006-2007 Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellow at Arizona State University and the prose editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Currently, she is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.