Paulette Alden is the author of UNFORGETTABLE:SHORT STORIES; FEEDING THE EAGLES, a short story collection; and CROSSING THE MOON, a memoir. Her novel, THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, which Scott Turow called "a wonderful novel," won The Kindle Book Review's 2013 Best Indie Book Award in the suspense category. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Stanford Magazine, the Antioch Review, the Mississippi Review, and others. A former Stegner Fellow, she received her M.A. from Stanford, where she taught as a Jones Lecturer in creative writing. She has taught memoir and fiction writing extensively, at the University of Minnesota, at Carleton College, St. Olaf College, and at the Key West Literary Seminar. Originally from South Carolina, Alden lives in Minneapolis, where she blogs on books and writing and critiques literary manuscripts via her website, www.paulettealden.com.