Melinda Moustakis Reading

WRITERS ON THE SHORE: Moustakis is the author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award and was a 5 and Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. She holds an M.A from University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. She is the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from The Lewis Center of the Arts at Princeton University, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction, a Kenyon Review Fellowship at Kenyon College, and is currently the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University.