David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, which won both the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award.  He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Ecotone, Third Coast, Fiction, Folio, Post Road, Gulf Coast, and the anthology Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest.  He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from Yaddo, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Stanley Elkin Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.