Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Boston University and Grub Street and has published fiction in Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best New American Voices, among others. She has been a Bread Loaf Writer's Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, aMacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and in 2005 the winner of the PEN/NewEngland Discovery Award for Fiction. She was born in Ames, Iowa, the granddaughterof four longtime farming families.
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