Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection "Half in Love," and the novels "Liars and Saints," shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize, and "A Family Daughter." Meloy s stories have been published in "The New Yorker," and she has received "The Paris Review s" Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta s Best American Novelists under 35. She lives in California."