MELINDA MOUSTAKIS is the author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, winner of the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction and a 5 Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Granta, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the O. Henry Award, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction, the Kenyon Review Fellowship at Kenyon College, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship at George Washington University, and the Rona Jaffe Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.