Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review (which awarded her the Plimpton Prize), McSweeney’s, ZYZZYVA, Epoch, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow, she has taught at the University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University. She’s currently an associate professor at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs and is an editor at swamp pink.