About the Author Stephen Minot, Professor Emeritus of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, has taught creative writing for over thirty years. Over the span of his very successful career, Professor Minot authored three novels, two collections of short stories, and three textbooks including "Reading Fiction" and "Literary Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre," His short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and literary quarterlies including the "Atlantic, Harpers, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Sewanee Review," just to name a f...