Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in nonfiction, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award. She has also received honors from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Writing Residency, and the Utah Arts Council. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, Georgia Review, The Sewanee Review, Story, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in the Bay Area, where she teaches in the MFA Program at Saint Mary's College of California.