The Snow Collectors

. Author‘s previously published story collection, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2010 . Author‘s other awards and honors include Best Microfiction 2019, Wigleaf 2011 Top 50 Very Short Fictions, winner of Caketrain Press‘s Chapbook Prize, McKinney Award, and the Center 2000 fiction prize, and finalist in Sarabande Books‘ novel competition, the LOFI Novella Award, and the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction . Previouly worked as an editor at the minnesota review, The Missouri Review, Optic, and Mid-American Review . Work published in venues including Big Other, SmokeLong Quarterly, Best Microfictions, Heavy Feather Review, Lake Effect, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review and others . Teaches creative writing and literature at Hamilton College, NY .Award-winning author, well recognized and connected in the literary fiction community, with a strong academic network and good personal connections