Maria Flook, a 2007 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, is the author of the nonfiction books, My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance, (Pantheon, 1998) and Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod (Broadway Books, 2003). Her fiction includes the novels Mothers and Lovers (Roundabout Books), Lux (Little, Brown and Co.), Open Water, Family Night, (Pantheon), which received a PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation, and a collection of stories, You Have the Wrong Man (Pantheon, 1996). She has also published two collections of poetry, Sea Room and Reckless Wedding, winner of the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series and the G.L.C.A . New Writers Award. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, TriQuarterly, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. She is Distinguished Writer-in Residence and teaches Fiction Writing in the M.F.A. program at Emerson College. She has taught fiction writing at Bennington Writing Seminars, University of North Carolina/Asheville, and Warren Wilson College. She is a regular faculty member at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer Writing Programs.