Melinda Moustikas
Spotlight Update
A 2004 graduate of our department, Melinda won the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. She received her B.A. in English from Cal Poly, her M.A. in English and creative wrtiting from UC Davis, and her Ph.D. in English and creative writing from Western Michigan University. She has stories published or forthcoming in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review online, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Cimarron Review, Storyglossia and elsewhere and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her book, Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories which includes What you Can Endure, is now available through Amazon and UGA Press. The book, a linked story collection set in Alaska, details the lives of one family who are homestaders, salt-tongued fishermen and fisherwomen, hunters and storytellers. With this book, Melinda has been named in The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2011.
Continue to follow Melinda's work on her website, http://www.melindamoustakis.com/