Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize in Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, and Epoch, and been anthologized in The Paris Review Book of People with Problems and The Worst Years of Your Life.

McCollum has received the Plimpton Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at The University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford. She currently lives in Charleston, SC, where she teaches writing at the College of Charleston.