Miriam Gershow's debut novel, The Local News, was hailed as "unusually credible and precise" and "deftly heartbreaking" by The New York Times and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Her stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review, among other journals, and her creative nonfiction has been featured in journals including Salon and Craft Literary. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and her stories have been listed in the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories. She teaches writing at the University of Oregon.
