Noley Reid’s fourth book is Origami Dogs, a collection of short stories in which dogs rove the grounds of their companions’ emotions. By turns tender, playful, and devastating, the book is a celebration of the bond possible between humans and dogs. Independent Book Review included Origami Dogs on its “30 Indie Books to Look Out for in Early 2023” list. Reid’s previous book, the novel Pretend We Are Lovely, was an Oprah Magazine Editors’ Pick and Publishers Weekly Best of the Season. Her stories and essays appear in The Southern Review, Tin House, The Rumpus, Arts & Letters, Meridian, Pithead Chapel, The Lily, Bustle, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in southwest Indiana with her two best boys, a rabbit, and two of the original origami dogs. www.NoleyReid.com

Website: www.NoleyReid.com

Twitter Username: @NoleyReid

Publications

• Pretend We Are Lovely , Tin House Books (July 18, 2017)
• So There! , SFA State University Press (September 23, 2011)
• In the Breeze of Passing Things , MacAdam/Cage Publishing (November 22, 2003)
• If You Must Know , Burnside Review Press (August 7, 2011)
• Girls , RockSaw Press (October 31, 2009)

Awards

• Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition(2011)
• Many Mountain Moving's Flash Fiction Contest(2011)
• 2010 DANA Award in Short Fiction(2011)
• Willamette Award in Fiction(2001)
• Peter and Jean de Maine Award for an Emerging Writer in Fiction(2001)

Employment

• Editor at RopeWalk Press (May 2010 - December 2015)
• Associate Professor at University of Southern Indiana (May 2004 - December 2015)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Lesbian & Gay Studies from Mary Washington College (May 1995)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing--Fiction from George Mason University (May 2001)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction