Elizabeth Stout

Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, Amy and Isabelle,
won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First
Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a
finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award as well as the Orange
Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in
a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. Currently
she is on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. program
at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She
lives in New York City.