N. M. Kelby is the winner of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin GrouprnFoundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome Travel Study Grant, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story Extra and the Mississippi Review. She divides her time between Sarasota, Florida, and Minnetonka, Minnesota.