ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH, Associate Professor, MFA Iowa Writers Workshop (1992), specializes in fiction. She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Iowa and is the author of a short story collection, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa, and a novel, Mermaids on the Moon. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Five Points, and other literary journals. In 2005, she received an O. Henry Award for the story "Mudlavia," cited by juror Richard Russo as "favorite story."

BOOKS

• The Last Summer of Peace, Doubleday, under contract.
• Mermaids on the Moon, Doubleday, 2002.
• The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa and Other Stories, Doubleday, 2000.

OTHER WORK

• "Mudlavia," The Atlantic Monthly, 2003.
• "Where the Bad Guys Are," Five Points, 2002.
• "Leufredus," The Southern Review, 1998.
• "The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa," The Gettysburg Review, 1998.
• "Electric Wizard," The Atlantic Monthly, 1998.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• O. Henry Award, 2005.
• Shortlisted in The O. Henry Awards, 1997.
• Shortlisted in Best American Short Stories, 1997.