Ruth Moose was on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for 15 years. Author of three collections of short stories and six collections of poetry, her work has appeared in many U.S. publications and in Holland, South Africa, England and Denmark. Ruth was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and, in 2009, received the prestigious Chapman Fellowship for Teaching. Most recently, her debut novel, Doing it at the Dixie Dew, was awarded a $10,000 Malice Domestic Prize; it will be published in 2014 by St. Martin's Press. Ruth lives in Chapel Hill, NC.