Tory McCaggTory McCagg holds an MFA from Emerson College, where her thesis and novel, Shards, won the Graduate Dean's Award. In February 1997, her short story "Earthquake Weather" was a semifinalist in the Tara Fellowships/Heekin Foundation. She has won two honrable mentions: one for "Enology" in 1998 (A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, White Eagle Coffee Store Press); the other for "Chain Material" in 2001 (Lorien Hemenway Short Story Competition). In 1999, "Roots", an early chapter from her novel Bittersweet Manor was a semifinalist in the New Millennium Awards VIII contest; Bittersweet Manor won a Silver medal for Contemporary Fiction from Independent Publishers in 2015. Tory is an accomplished flutist, and lives with her husband, two cats, and myriad chickens at Darwin's View where they all practice an experimental life off the grid and on the land. Read More Read Less