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Melinda Moustakis

Melinda Moustakis is the author of Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories, which won the Flannery O’ Connor Award and was a 5 Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. Her story “They Find the Drowned” won a 2013 PEN/O. Henry Prize. She received a Hodder Fellowship from The Lewis Center of the Arts at Princeton University and a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship. She will be the 2014-2016 Kenyon Review Fellow in Fiction at Kenyon College.

Fiction

Fall 2011

Miners and Trappers

By Melinda Moustakis

Your sister-in-law Jean calls you because Jack has been gone for too long—one night she understands, she knows that it means he’s passed out drunk at Goodtime Charlie’s or at […]

Melinda Moustakis

Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and raised in Bakersfield, California. She received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan […]