Constance Squires’s first novel, Along the Watchtower, received the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction, and she has just completed a second novel, Live From Medicine Park. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, The Atlantic Monthly, This Land, Bayou, Identity Theory, New Delta Review, and other magazines. Her short fiction has received several short story awards, has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the 2014 Disquiet International Literary Award. Her nonfiction has appeared most recently in the New York Times, Salon, the Village Voice, Largehearted Boy, and on the NPR program Snap Judgment.