Melanie
Sumner is the award-winning author of The Ghost of Milagro Creek, The
School of Beauty and Charm, and Polite
Society. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the
New York Times, Seventeen, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is the
recipient of a NEA Fellowship in fiction, a PEN
America grant, a Whiting Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 1995. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw
State University, Georgia.
