Maile Meloy is an author of short stories and novels.Meloy’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Short Stories, and on This American Life and Selected Shorts. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset, and O, and she wrote for the Netflix series “The Society.” Her first book, the collection “Half in Love,” was published in 2002.Meloy 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.