ZZ Packer is the author of the short-story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere and a 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Zoetrope All-Story, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories in 2000 and 2003. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• October 2004: Interview with John Kerry
  The candidate on improving health care, education, the tax code, the unemployment rate, the prison system, and the rest of the world, too.