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C.J. Hribal is the author of the novels The Company Car, which received the Anne Powers Book Award, and American Beauty, and of the short fiction collections Matty’s Heart and The Clouds in Memphis, which won the AWP Award for Short Fiction.  He also edited The Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing from the New World.  He has held Fellowships from the NEA, the Bush, and from the Guggenheim Foundations.  He teaches at Marquette University, and is a member of the fiction faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.