Homestead - melinda moustakis

Moustakis, Melinda: - Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in California.

Her story collection, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories , won the Flannery OConnor Award, the Maurice Prize, and was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 selection.

Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has been awarded an O.

Henry Prize.

She is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the NEA Literature Fellowship, the Kenyon Review Fellowship, and the Rona Jaffe Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

Homestead is her debut novel.