Elizabeth Stuckey-French is the author of two novels, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady and Mermaids on the Moon, as well as a collection of short stories, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. With Janet Burroway and Ned Stuckey-French, she is a co-author of Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft. Her short stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Five Points, and The O'Henry Prize Stories. She has won a James Michener Fellowship, a Florida Book Award, and grants from the Howard Foundation, the Indiana Arts Foundation, and the Florida Arts Foundation She teaches fiction writing at Florida State University.