author : Ruth Moosewebsite : http://ruthmoose.com/Ruth_Moose/Home.htmlfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ruth-Moose/267203949989803RUTH MOOSE is the 2013 winner of the Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Competition. She won the PEN Award for Syndicated Fiction, the Robert Ruark Award for the Short Story, and the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award. She has received 3 Pushcart nominations and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. She's published three collections of short stories and six collections of poetry, and is the author of Doing It at the Dixie Dew. She was on the Creative Writing faculty at UNC Chapel Hill for fifteen years. Moose lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina.