Ron MacLean is author of the novel Headlong, winner of the 2014 Indie Book Award for Best Mystery, and finalist for Best Novel. His previous books are the novel Blue Winnetka Skies and the story collection Why the Long Face? His fiction has appeared widely in magazines including GQ, Narrative, Fiction International, Night Train, Other Voices, Drunken Boat, Best Online Fiction 2010, and elsewhere. His stories have been anthologized. Ron has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and has been a writer-in-residence at The Chautauqua Institution's Summer Writers Workshop. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. He holds a Doctor of Arts from the University at Albany, SUNY, and teaches at Grub Street in Boston. See his work at www.ronmaclean.net.