Carrie Brown is the author of seven novels, most recently The Stargazer’s Sister (Pantheon Books, 2015). She is the author of the short story collection The House on Belle Isle (Algonquin Books, 2002). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Tin House, The Georgia Review, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. She received a 2004 literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1998 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for her first novel, Rose’s Garden (Algonquin Books, 1998), and the 2000 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for The Hatbox Baby (Algonquin Books, 2000).