Daniel Mueller is the author of HOW ANIMALS MATE, which won the Sewanee Fiction Prize. He is the grateful recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He directs the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico and teaches on the faculty of the Low-Residency MFA Program at Queens University of Charlotte. He lives in Albuquerque.