Debra Monroe

DEBRA MONROE is the author <i>The Source of Trouble</i>, which won the 1989 Flannery O’ Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of the story collection <i>A Wild, Cold State</i>; two novels, <i>Newfangled</i> and <i>Shambles</i>; and two memoirs, <i>On the Outskirts of Normal</i> and <i>My Unsentimental Education</i>. She is a "fierce" writer who presents "ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and sympathy" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>), in prose that's "rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable" (<i>Washington Post</i>), always "fine and funky, marbled with warmth and confusion, but not a hint of sentimentality" (<i>Boston Globe</i>). She lives in Austin, Texas, and teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.