Ellen GilchristEllen Gilchrist, Fayetteville, Arkansas, teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of several collections of short stories and novellas including The Cabal and Other Stories, Flights of Angels, The Ageof Miracles, The Courts of Love, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan (winner of the National Book Award in 1984), Drunk with Love, I Cannot Get You Close Enough, and most recently, Acts of God. Her novels include The Anna Papers; The Annunciation; Net of Jewels; Starcarbon; Sarah Conley; Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior; and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy. She is the author of two collections of essays, Falling through Space and The Writing Life, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Read More Read Less