Maile Meloy’s most recent book is a collection of short stories, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. She is also the author of the story collection, Half in Love, and the novels, Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter. Meloy’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and other publications. She has been shortlisted for the UK’s Orange Prize, and has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Program in Fiction, she was born and raised in Helena, Montana, and now lives in Los Angeles.