Jacqueline Simon has won four awards for short stories which appear in this book: "If He Could Speak to His Brother" was a 1984 finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction...view moreJacqueline Simon has won four awards for short stories which appear in this book: "If He Could Speak to His Brother" was a 1984 finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, "Sisters" received a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, "Cheats" gained the Cultural Arts Council of Houston's Creative Artist Award, and "Leaving Letitia Street" won PEN Southwest's first Houston Discovery Prize. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Redbook, Domestic Crude (renamed Gulf Coast), other journals, and the anthology Her Work. She has taught creative writing at almost every level, from Houston's Bellaire High School to Rice University's Glasscock School. She and her husband, James Colthart, live in Houston and New Hampshire.view less