Bobbie Ann Mason's first book of fiction, Shiloh and Other Stories, received the Ernest Hemingway Award.  Other works include In Country, Spence + Lila, Feather Crowns, Clear Springs, Elvis Presley, and Zigzagging Down A Wild Trail.  Mason has received National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships.  She is Writer- in-Residence at the University of Kentucky, and her most recent novels are An Atomic Romance and Nancy Culpepper.