Melissa Yancy’s book Dog Years is winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her short
fiction has appeared in One Story, Glimmer Train, Zyzzyva, and other publications. She is the
recipient of a 2016 NEA Literature Fellowship. Stories in Dog Years have won the Glimmer
Train Fiction Open, The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, and received special
mention in the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Los Angeles where she works as a fundraiser for
healthcare causes.
