KELLY MUSTIAN is the author of The Girls in the Stilt House, which Publishers Weekly calls "a remarkable debut" and "a nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance, and redemption." Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and commercial magazines, and she is a past recipient of a Blumenthal Writers Award and a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts and Science Council. She is originally from Natchez, Mississippi, and currently lives near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
