DJUNA BARNES was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, in 1892. She was an American novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and visual artist as well as an important figure in the Modernist movement. Her works include the novels Ryder (1928), Ladies Almanack (1928), and Nightwood (1937). Barnes died in New York City in 1982.

A reprint of an early short story collection by the Modernist author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes.