Marilyn F. Moriarty is an award-winning writer and professor whose work spans creative nonfiction, fiction, and literary scholarship. Her writing appears in leading journals including The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Raritan, and River Teeth with three essays recognized as "Notable" in The Best American Essays series. A recipient of the AWP Prize, Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal, Peregrine Prize, Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and University of Utah Novella Prize, Moriarty has been a Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. She holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, and taught literature at Hollins University.