Kekla Magoon is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels, The Last Reel, The Loss of E.T. and From the Corner of the Oval Room. Her short stories have been published in The Iowa Review, The Sun, The Seattle Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. She has received numerous awards including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction for her story "The Statue in the Forest," a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing, a James Michener Center Fellowship for creative nonfiction, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in creative nonfiction
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She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. When she is not writing she enjoys painting, traveling, boating on the Hudson River, dancing salsa with her husband at their community center in Yonkers, or training dogs to sniff out explosives.