Do Not Become Alarmed (Meloy) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—February 15, 1972
• Where—Helena, Montana, USA
• Education—B.A., Harvard University; M.F.A., University of California-Irvine
• Awards—PEN/Malmud Award (more below)
• Currently—lives in Los Angeles, California


Maile Meloy (pronounced MY-lee) is an Americcan novelist and short story writer. Her novels include Do Not Become Alarmed (2017), A Family Daughter (2006), Liars and Saints (2003). She has published the story collections, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (2009) and Half in Love (2002). Both Ways was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times.

She has also written a well regarded trilogy for young readers, starting with The Apothecary (2011), a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 E.B. White Award. Next in the series came The Apprentice (2013) and, finally, The After-Room (2017).

Meloy’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Short Stories 2015. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, and O.

Recognition
Meloy has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as two California Book Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists. (Adapted from Wikipedia and the author's website. Retrieved 6/19/2017.)