Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of six novels, including Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two widely anthologized story collections, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets. Quiet Dell was a Wall Street Journal and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction selection. Lark and Termite, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France). Machine Dreams, chosen as one of twelve New York Times Best Books of the Year, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Black Tickets, awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is often cited as a book of stories that influenced a generation of writers. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Jayne Anne Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Information, essays, and text source photographs on her fiction can be viewed at her website, www.jayneannephillips.com.