Peng Shepherd’s fiction has appeared in Litro, .Cent Magazine, and Liars’ League, among others. She is currently an MFA Stein Fellow in Creative Writing at New York University, where she also teaches as an adjunct undergraduate instructor. She is finishing her first novel.

Her story Free Cake is in Weird Lies

She describes it as: An earnest boss tries to keep his jaded employees’ heads from exploding.