Maile Meloy grew up in Helena, Montana, and now lives in Los Angeles. Her new book, Do Not Become Alarmed, was released by Riverhead Books in June, 2017. Her first book for young readers, The Apothecary, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2012 E.B. White Award. It was followed by two sequels, The Apprentices (2013) and The After Room (2015). She is also the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, and the story collectionsHalf in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. Her short story, “Madame Lazarus,” originally published in The New Yorker, is in The Best American Short Stories 2015, edited by T.C. Boyle. Meloy’s stories have also been published in The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two California Book Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset, and O. She attended the Community of Writers in 2000. www.mailemeloy.com