Miriam Gershow’s debut novel, The Local News, was hailed as “unusually credible and precise" and "deftly heartbreaking” by The New York Times. Miriam’s stories appear in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast and Black Warrior Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing andan Oregon Literary Fellowship, as well as writing residencies at Playa Summer Lake and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Miriam lives with her family in Eugene OR, where she teaches at the University of Oregon. She is at work on her next novel. (Photo Credit: Livia Fremouw)