Ann Joslin Williams is the author of The Woman in the Woods, a collection of linked stories that won the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, and the novel Down From Cascom Mountain (Bloomsbury), winner of the NH Writers' Project Literary Awards for Outstanding Book of Fiction, 2011. She earned her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories have appeared in The Sun, Arts and Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, StoryQuarterly, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.