David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, which won both the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and the International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Cimarron Review, Chicago Quaretly Review, Ecotone, Third Coast, Fiction, Folio, Post Road, Gulf Coast, and the anthology Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest. He has received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature from Yaddo, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a Writer of Note Grant from The de Groot Foundation, a First Place prize from the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He is Chair of the Department of English at Creighton University.