The Cure for Everything

Severna Park is the author of three novels, two of which, Speaking Dreams and The Annunciate, have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. Her short story, "The Cure For Everything," originally published at SCI FICTION, was the 2001 Nebula Award Winner for short fiction. In 2004 Ms. Park received her Masters Degree from the Graduate Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and has since won the Editors' Prize for fiction at the Missouri Review, and been a finalist in the Bakeless Prize for fiction. She lives with her wife of over thirty years in Frederick, Maryland, and is presently at work on a new novel and a collection of short stories.