Jacqueline SimonJacqueline Simon has won four awards for short stories which appear in this book: If He Could Speak to His Brother was a 1984 finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, Sisters received a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, Cheatsgained the Cultural Arts Council of Houston's Creative Artist Award, and Leaving Letitia Street won PEN Southwest's first Houston Discovery Prize. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Redbook, Domestic Crude (renamed Gulf Coast), other journals, and the anthology Her Work. She has taught creative writing at almost every level, from Houston's Bellaire High School to Rice University's Glasscock School. She and her husband, James Colthart, live in Houston and New Hampshire. Read More Read Less