If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading Melinda's work, you can start with "All the Small Objects" published in issue 14.2 (Spring 2008).

Most recently, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University awarded her the Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. Her debut collection, Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories, won the Flannery O' Connor Award in Short Fiction and the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Conjunctions, Cimarron Review, American Short Fiction, and many others. She was also named one of the 2011 writers “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation.

Congratulations Melinda on all of your successes!

Staff and Editors
Fourteen Hills

Written by Ari Moskowitz
Assistant Fiction Editor