Rosellen Brown's most recent novel is Half a Heart (Picador) and her 1974 story collection Street Games was republished in 2001 by Norton. She has also written two books of poetry. Her stories have appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Brown has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Chicago and teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.