Maile Meloy

writer

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection *Half in Love*, the novels *Liars and Saints* and *A Family Daughter*, and the new collection, *Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It*, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. Meloy’s stories have been published in *The New Yorker*, *The Paris Review*, *Zoetrope: All-Story*, *Granta*, and other publications, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.