- Born: 1942
Award-winning author Molly Giles is best known for her short stories. Giles was nominated for Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her first book, Rough Translations, which also won the Pushcart Prize, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Small Press Book Award, Boston Globe Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her second book, another collection of short stories, is called Creek Walk, and was named one of the New York Times' most notable books of 1997. Her stories have been featured on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts, and her short story "Two Words,"which was first published in The Missouri Review, won the 2003 O. Henry Prize. In 2000, Giles published her first novel, Iron Shoes.
With a masters degree in English, Giles was a professor of Creative Writing at San Jose State University and is currently Professor and Director of Programs in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
