Michelle Huneven’s third novel, Blame came out in the Fall of 2009. Entertainment Weekly, Morning Edition, The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, and O Magazine named it one of the best books of the year. Huneven received an M.F.A. at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and her first published story won a G.E. Younger Writers Award. Her first novel, Round Rock (Knopf 1997), was a New York Times notable book and, one of the Los Angeles Times best 100 books of the year. Her second novel, Jamesland, was also a New York Times notable book and a winner of the Southern California Booksellers Award for Fiction. She received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2002. Her journalism has been published in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Huneven presently teaches creative writing at UCLA. She lives with her husband and multiple pets in Altadena, CA, where she is at work on her next novel.