Dallas Woodburn, 27, is the author of two collections of stories: her latest, 3 a.m. was featured on the acclaimed PBS book talk show "Between the Lines" and her debut, There's a Huge Pimple On My Nose, is currently being adapted into a song-cycle by a composer at Carnegie Mellon University. Dallas is also the editor of Dancing With The Pen: a collection of today's best youth writing. She is a 2013-14 John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and teaches courses for kids in creative writing and public speaking through Communication Academy. She enjoys writing fiction for young audiences, teens, and adults.Dallas's forthcoming collection of short stories was a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She won second place in the American Fiction Prize and has a story forthcoming in American Fiction Volume 13: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by American Writers (New Rivers Press.) Her short stories have been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and the Dzanc Books "Best of the Web" anthology and have appeared in numerous publications including Louisiana Literature, Monkeybicycle, The Nashville Review, Arcadia Journal, and Arroyo Literary Review. In 2011, she won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize for her short story "Woman, Running Late, in a Dress." Dallas has also written nonfiction for numerous national publications including Writer's Digest, The Writer, Family Circle, Cicada, Justine, CO-ED, and Listen, and her stories have appeared in more than two dozen Chicken Soup for the Soul books. A 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California, Dallas wrote a biweekly column for the USC student newspaper The Daily Trojan and has also published pieces in the Los Angeles Times and Ventura County Star. She received her MFA in Fiction from Purdue University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing and composition courses and served as Fiction Editor of Sycamore Review.Dallas founded "Write On! For Literacy" in 2001 to encourage kids to discover confidence, joy, a self-expression and connection with others through reading and writing. Check out her website www.writeonbooks.org for book reviews, writing contests, author interviews, and how you can be involved in Write On's annual Holiday Book Drive, which recently surpassed the grand total of 13,000 new books donated to underprivileged youth. You can also contact Dallas through her blogs: http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com and http://daybydaymasterpiece.com/