Susan Neville's collection of stories The Town of Whispering Dolls recently won the Catherine Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction from FC2 and will be published in March 2020. Her previous books include Invention of Flight (University of Georgia, 1984), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and essay collections, including Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning (MacMurray & Beck, 2001) and Iconography: A Writer's Meditation (Indiana University Press, 2003). She lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Butler University.