Doug Lawson's writing has appeared in a number of literary publications, including Glimmer Train Stories, the Sycamore Review, Passages North, repeatedly in the Mississippi Review, and has received an Honorable Mention from the O. Henry Awards anthology. He's won a Transatlantic Review Award in fiction, the Henfield Prize in short fiction, and a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia, where he studied with writers Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, and George Garrett, among others. Doug has edited The Blue Penny Quarterly, an online journal of short fiction, since he founded it as one of the earliest online-only literary reviews in 1994. Doug's first collection of short fiction, A Patrimony of Fishes, is available from Red Hen Press. The Virginia Quarterly Review called it "a spicy soup of American writing," and writer Ann Beattie wrote "it's a banquet for the senses...a wonderful collection. Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone, called Doug "a writer with talent, vision, and a wise man's knowledge of the human heart." Doug's second collection, The Mushroom Hunter, is a series of stories all set in California's rural Santa Cruz Mountains, in between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean.While he was born and spent many years living on the east coast of the US, Doug lives now with his artist wife, two kids, two dogs, and five chickens in the same Santa Cruz Mountains his latest collection is set in, about a mile from the San Andreas faultline. By day he works at technology companies in Silicon Valley. He travels internationally for work, and blogs regularly at http://HouseOnBearMountain.com. Doug can be contacted directly at doug@houseonbearmountain.com.