National Book Foundation likes WMU grad

Western Michigan University graduate Melinda Moustakis is a notable young fiction writer says the National Book Foundation.

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports she has been named one of the foundation’s 2011 “5 under 35” and will be honored Nov. 14 at a celebration in New York.

Excerpt:

Moustakis is author of the book “Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories,” which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2010 and as a result was published by the University of Georgia Press. The collection of short stories inspired by her family’s Alaskan background was written as her doctoral dissertation in creative writing at Western in 2010.

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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette