Ann Joslin Williams is the author of The Woman in the Woods, a collection of linked stories (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007), which won the 2005 Spokane Prize. She earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is also the recipient of a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her work has appeared StoryQuarterly, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her first novel will be published by Bloomsbury, USA, in spring, 2011. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire.