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  Mona Susan Power

  

  Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer, awarded the PEN/Hemingway prize; Roofwalker; Sacred Wilderness; and A Council of Dolls, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the High Plains Book Award, and Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carol Shields Prize. Fellowships in support of her work include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, James Michener Fellowship, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, USA Artists Fellowship, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, and McKnight Fellowship. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and Granta. Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (Yanktonai Dakota), born and raised in Chicago. She currently lives in Minnesota. (Photo credit: Ted Hall)