Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection "Half in Love" and the novel "Liars and Saints, " which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in "The New Yorker, " and she has received "The Paris Review's" Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.