Martha Conway's first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her historical novel THIEVING FOREST won numerous prizes including the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Her short stories have been published in the Iowa Review, the Carolina Quarterly, the Massachusetts Review, the Quarterly, Folio, Puerto del Sol, Epoch, and other journals. She teaches creative writing for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension, and is a recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and now lives in San Francisco.
