Editor’s Note: "Coach" is an excerpt from Katherine Hill's novel, A Short Move. His third season as coach of the Pee Wee Monacan Jets, Tim Williams started carrying a calendar. “Well, Tim,” Cindy said when she saw it. “Guess you’re a grown up now.” She was his ex, and...

Katherine is the author of two novels, The Violet Hour (2013) and A Short Move (2020). With Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards, she is also co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (2020). Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Common, The Guardian, The Nation, and n+1. She teaches creative writing and literature at Adelphi University.